Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nylas&#x2F;n1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nylas&#x2F;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&#x27;t get enough credit)

Just switched over from Sublime to Atom yesterday. Couldn&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;s a package called Hydrogen that let&#x27;s you run your code directly within Atom using Jupyter kernels (not just python!). To me, that&#x27;s the perfect example of the power of a hackable editor.

Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?

This is the first time I&#x27;ve opened a discussion about Atom where all the top posts weren&#x27;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&#x27;m actually kind of happy about this. While I don&#x27;t personally use Atom at all, I think it&#x27;s good that an open source editor is getting extremely popular.<p>Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;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.

Atom is very nice. The Emacs of 2016.

The fact that this is still a problem blows my mind.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom&#x2F;atom&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5901" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom&#x2F;atom&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5901</a>

What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?

One of the only reasons I haven&#x27;t fully moved over to Atom is due to its SFTP support. Any recommendations? I&#x27;m definitely considering switching from ST.

It&#x27;s awesome but I just can&#x27;t give up my pspad

Can you imagine, Notepad celebrating 1 billion monthly users?