The most fantastic thing about Atom to me has been the underlying technology-- specifically Electron, which is a novel combination of Chromium and NodeJS.<p>We at Nylas built an email app that originally was a fork of Atom, and now runs on Electron (which is evolving way faster). <a href="http://github.com/nylas/n1" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/nylas/n1</a><p>I honestly think that Electron is the future of desktop software, and it all started with Atom. Hats off to those folks for continuing to invest in this project!<p>(also, zcbenz is a complete badass who doesn't get enough credit)
Just switched over from Sublime to Atom yesterday. Couldn't be happier. The community around Atom is active, and exciting, much unlike Sublime Text.<p>I hope subsequent updates make it faster, since ST still has an edge there.
Congrats! Atom may not be perfect (no editor is), but it's constantly and consistently improving, which is a lot more than one can say about most other editors.<p>For those who use Jupyter: there's a package called Hydrogen that let's you run your code directly within Atom using Jupyter kernels (not just python!). To me, that's the perfect example of the power of a hackable editor.
This is the first time I've opened a discussion about Atom where all the top posts weren't about how horrible and slow it is. Has it gotten better, or have people who know better just given up on this editor?
I'm actually kind of happy about this. While I don't personally use Atom at all, I think it's good that an open source editor is getting extremely popular.<p>Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it.
The only thing that keeps me from using Atom, and I admit that this might seem trivial, is how much I hate the delay before the syntax highlighting loads. Somehow it's an immersion-breaker for me, and a deal breaker. Anyone know if this issue is being worked on?
Is it me, or are there <i>horrible</i> stability issues on Windows 10? I cannot have more than one editor open without one of them crashing. This is an issue on 3 of my W10 machines.
I just now tweaked my vimrc to be a bit nicer on remote ssh servers. Atom seems to be getting cooler every day, but I just can't see myself parting from Vim. Not yet anyway.<p>Another thought just stroke me as well: everywhere I look I see Atom, it seems like almost everyone has adopted it. If that <i>everyone</i> is just 1M, our world is very small indeed.
The fact that this is still a problem blows my mind.<p><a href="https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/5901" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/5901</a>
One of the only reasons I haven't fully moved over to Atom is due to its SFTP support. Any recommendations? I'm definitely considering switching from ST.