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Atom is not that slow in practice... except the slow startup, for daily business it's fine - I'm using it with a full suite of linters and autocomplete plugins

by kolev 12y ago

Atom is not that slow in practice... except the slow startup, for daily business it's fine - I'm using it with a full suite of linters and autocomplete plugins on the older MacBook Air and it's not laggy.

melling 12y ago
There seem to be a lot of performance related issues: https://github.com/atom/atom/search?q=performance&state=open&type=Issues&utf8=✓ https://github.com/atom/atom/search?q=performance&state=open... If it works for you, great. Hope you contribute and it becomes a great editor someday.
bdcravens 12y ago
It does some weird things in full screen, especially if you have multiple windows going. I've closed one window, but the save dialog pops up on another... but when I swipe over, that dialog goes away, and the modal that I can't click on blocks the rest of the UI. Nothing but a force kill can resolve it. I've been using it 4-12 hours a day for several months, so I'm rooting for it, but losing work will always trump whatever OSS cred it has.
qubitcoder 12y ago
I've made a few attempts to use Atom on a daily basis. Unfortunately, I continued to experience crashes with the linter, autocomplete, and Haskell-related plugins--or the plugins would work, only to break during the next Atom update. It also wasn't possible to use my favorite ligature-based font without breaking the cursor position. Not to mention the rendering/performance issues. There's a lot to admire about Atom. But Sublime is stable and silky smooth. And I continue to use Vim happily every day without issue, despite its ~25 year age.
- Already__Taken 12y ago
  If you're that interested to try the atom browser might I suggest having a look at Brackets[1]? It was out before atom and I have been using it to replace ST3 just because I liked the idea of it. I haven't tried atom it didn't initially release with windows support so I just stayed on brackets. [1]: http://brackets.io/ http://brackets.io/

by kolev 12y ago

melling 12y ago

There seem to be a lot of performance related issues: https://github.com/atom/atom/search?q=performance&state=open&type=Issues&utf8=✓ https://github.com/atom/atom/search?q=performance&state=open... If it works for you, great. Hope you contribute and it becomes a great editor someday.

bdcravens 12y ago

It does some weird things in full screen, especially if you have multiple windows going. I've closed one window, but the save dialog pops up on another... but when I swipe over, that dialog goes away, and the modal that I can't click on blocks the rest of the UI. Nothing but a force kill can resolve it. I've been using it 4-12 hours a day for several months, so I'm rooting for it, but losing work will always trump whatever OSS cred it has.

qubitcoder 12y ago

I've made a few attempts to use Atom on a daily basis. Unfortunately, I continued to experience crashes with the linter, autocomplete, and Haskell-related plugins--or the plugins would work, only to break during the next Atom update. It also wasn't possible to use my favorite ligature-based font without breaking the cursor position. Not to mention the rendering/performance issues. There's a lot to admire about Atom. But Sublime is stable and silky smooth. And I continue to use Vim happily every day without issue, despite its ~25 year age.

Already__Taken 12y ago
If you're that interested to try the atom browser might I suggest having a look at Brackets[1]? It was out before atom and I have been using it to replace ST3 just because I liked the idea of it. I haven't tried atom it didn't initially release with windows support so I just stayed on brackets. [1]: http://brackets.io/ http://brackets.io/