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> decimate Atom I don't think so. Keep in mind that Atom is used internally at Github, and is starting to be adopted by some big names. Things like that don't

> decimate Atom I don't think so. Keep in mind that Atom is used internally at Github, and is starting to be adopted by some big names. Things like that don't get chocked out by the competition. I'm not sure how much funding it'll loose internally if they aren't the #1 but I don't think it'll effect them as much as if Sublime Texts competitor got it's funding from sales for instance.

makeitsuckless 11y ago
> is starting to be adopted by some big names Citation needed. All I hear about Atom is that people are giving up on it.
- kyrra 11y ago
  Facebook's tool built ontop of Atom: Nuclide[0]. [0] http://nuclide.io/ http://nuclide.io/
  - digikata 11y ago
    Not to criticize the tools themselves here (Atom or Nuclide), but the process of building an enhanced X over some large base application code didn't work out well for a lot of Eclipse tools. Or at least my experience is with working with lots of Eclipse + "x" on top environments which were integrated once, then rarely touched the base Eclipse again... leading to lots of inconsistent annoyances between Eclipse/tool instances.
    - kyrra 11y ago
      As an eclipse user for far to long, I understand the pain. I'd prefer if more languages/frameworks went the Golang approach and provided generic tools that can then be integrated into various editors to provide things like auto-complete and context support (oracle).
- quonn 11y ago
  Microsoft's "Visual Studio Code".
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- reledi 11y ago
  With the recent 1.0 release that got a lot of attention, I imagine the adoption curve has gone up. My team just voluntarily switched over from Sublime and no regrets so far.
urda 11y ago
> and is starting to be adopted by some big names Uh who? About every other editor and IDE under the sun is leagues ahead of Atom. Honestly an editor based around a freaking browser is already too heavy for usage. No, I don't want to use a browser engine to run my editing environment, and a ton of "big names" are not picking up Atom at all. Going to need to see some citations, not downvotes Hacker News. I don't care if it's the "hip new editor", being made by GitHub is not enough.
- sehr 11y ago
  I don't know if 'adopted' is the right word, but it and its underlying platform or whatever are being used by Microsoft, Facebook and Slack among others
- jastanton 11y ago
  Microsoft's Visual Studio Code & Facebook's Nuclide are two that come to mind.
  - lvillani 11y ago
    Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, not Atom. The editor component is Microsoft's and based on Monaco, the editor used in Visual Studio Online. Electron is a souped up Chromium Embedded Framework, patched to make it easier to develop desktop applications. Atom is built on top of that. So, Visual Studio Code only uses the "low level" components from the Atom project, but it doesn't use Atom itself (unlike Nuclide which is, instead, a set of Atom plugins).
yAnonymous 11y ago
Yeah, Atom already has hundreds of thousands of active users and moved ahead in terms of features and UI. One year ago, open sourcing ST could have prevented Atom from ever taking off, but now it's not going to change much.

makeitsuckless 11y ago

> is starting to be adopted by some big names Citation needed. All I hear about Atom is that people are giving up on it.

kyrra 11y ago
Facebook's tool built ontop of Atom: Nuclide[0]. [0] http://nuclide.io/ http://nuclide.io/
- digikata 11y ago
  Not to criticize the tools themselves here (Atom or Nuclide), but the process of building an enhanced X over some large base application code didn't work out well for a lot of Eclipse tools. Or at least my experience is with working with lots of Eclipse + "x" on top environments which were integrated once, then rarely touched the base Eclipse again... leading to lots of inconsistent annoyances between Eclipse/tool instances.
  - kyrra 11y ago
    As an eclipse user for far to long, I understand the pain. I'd prefer if more languages/frameworks went the Golang approach and provided generic tools that can then be integrated into various editors to provide things like auto-complete and context support (oracle).
quonn 11y ago
Microsoft's "Visual Studio Code".
- deleted 11y ago
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reledi 11y ago
With the recent 1.0 release that got a lot of attention, I imagine the adoption curve has gone up. My team just voluntarily switched over from Sublime and no regrets so far.

urda 11y ago

> and is starting to be adopted by some big names Uh who? About every other editor and IDE under the sun is leagues ahead of Atom. Honestly an editor based around a freaking browser is already too heavy for usage. No, I don't want to use a browser engine to run my editing environment, and a ton of "big names" are not picking up Atom at all. Going to need to see some citations, not downvotes Hacker News. I don't care if it's the "hip new editor", being made by GitHub is not enough.

sehr 11y ago
I don't know if 'adopted' is the right word, but it and its underlying platform or whatever are being used by Microsoft, Facebook and Slack among others
jastanton 11y ago
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code & Facebook's Nuclide are two that come to mind.
- lvillani 11y ago
  Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, not Atom. The editor component is Microsoft's and based on Monaco, the editor used in Visual Studio Online. Electron is a souped up Chromium Embedded Framework, patched to make it easier to develop desktop applications. Atom is built on top of that. So, Visual Studio Code only uses the "low level" components from the Atom project, but it doesn't use Atom itself (unlike Nuclide which is, instead, a set of Atom plugins).

yAnonymous 11y ago

Yeah, Atom already has hundreds of thousands of active users and moved ahead in terms of features and UI. One year ago, open sourcing ST could have prevented Atom from ever taking off, but now it's not going to change much.