I use Atom daily for work, and I am overall satisfied with the editor and its ecosystem, in particular the mammoth improvements the core team has made toward addressing speed issues that plagued the editor in prior years. I haven't tried the new GitHub integration features in this package, but they seem cool.<p>That having been said - Atom devs, if you're reading this, _please_ put a priority on fixing the auto-update / 'Restart and Install' feature on macOS.[1] If it's not fixable, please remove the option and offer a workaround.<p>It's gotten to the point where I now simply download the Atom update in browser and manually replace the package binary in my Applications folder, knowing the auto-update will fail.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2860" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2860</a>
I'll admit that I haven't used Atom in a very long time, but to be it just seems like a worse version of VS Code.<p>I don't think I've ever introduced an Atom user to VS Code and they stick with Atom. Every one of them switches.
I really love Atom over any editor I’ve ever used in the past, but damn it can be slow, so I hope this update addresses some of that. I mostly use it for writing code because of the extremely intuitive editing features, advanced regex, and beautiful syntax highlighting. However it can’t handle really large files like logs and such because it tries to prase everything and consumes tons of memory. For that nothing seems to beat Notepad++ on Windows (written in C!). One thing to remember is that Arom is an Electron app and as such is essentially a browser application, which sadly could never be as fast as a native app.
Is Atom developed by microsoft now? It would be weird for them to invest in developing both editors in the long run, considering how much crossover the two have.<p>Is the contributor community strong enough that it would keep going strong regardless? I'm not sure how many contributors were from Github vs elsewhere
I haven't used Atom for more than a year. Is the performance better now? Faster than VS Code? Would it still crash if I accidentally opened a 100mb CSV file?
I wish they could get Ruby working in Atom out of the box. I still can‘t believe how weak the tooling is in the Ruby on Rails world. Even Jetbrains fails miserably. Why on earth can‘t we have decent code completion in Ruby?! If the human brain can tell what will be available why can’t my computer.
Does Atom work with mounted directories yet? Especially sshfs? I'd love to go back to Atom, but unfortunately, last time I tried to use it, it had massive indexing problems when working through mounts.