Atom 1.18 released

Please, don&#x27;t consider this a troll question (I personally am a vim kind of guy), but is there any reason to use Atom over VSCode these days?<p>The sole reason to me seems that VSCode is developed by the &quot;evil&quot; Microsoft. Other than that, most people I know who tried Atom switched to VSCode or (back to) Sublime in the end.

I really wanted Atom to work. But in the end, it is just to damn slow, takes too much memory, and hogs on large files. Now, I find vscode to be very much what I need for javascript&#x2F;typescript&#x2F;html&#x2F;css work.

Wonder if it changes anything significanly. It would really have to to change my opinion. It always felt very slow to me even on killer hardware.<p>This page quantifies it. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jhallen&#x2F;joes-sandbox&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;editor-perf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jhallen&#x2F;joes-sandbox&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;editor-p...</a><p>I don&#x27;t so much care about memory consumption. It can be 5 to 10 times as much as Sublime... I am RAM to spare. What I do care about is that a lot of these tests are 20 times SLOWER than Sublime (which can already be considered a heavy-weight editor)

Also, Atom 1.19 Beta has native text buffer. This should reduce memory usage for large files. Will try it out!

I used to love Atom, the plugins were perfect and I could customise it to do exactly what I wanted. However, even on a fully specced macbook air, it just became too slow. I moved to VS Code because it had the speed I needed with the customisability that I wanted. Hopefully this Atom update increases performance though, I really liked that editor :)

This is the 5th time I try Atom (after switching back to sublime) but I might start using this a lot more now that I&#x27;ve discovered go-plus. Atom might really be the best text editor for golang.

I prefer Notepad++. On Linux, Geany is a viable alternative.... If I need an IDE, I will get an IDE. I want my text editor to be as lightweight as possible. This was not the case with Atom.

I don&#x27;t know. Since it&#x27;s basically build upon ECMAScript, HTML and Webkit already, why not also wasm?

I recently switched from vs code to atom, before that I was on webstorm.<p>Loving the hydrogen plugin to evaluate lines or js expressions inside the editor. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atom.io&#x2F;packages&#x2F;hydrogen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atom.io&#x2F;packages&#x2F;hydrogen</a>

Byte-order-mark is not implemented yet :-(<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom&#x2F;encoding-selector&#x2F;issues&#x2F;18" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom&#x2F;encoding-selector&#x2F;issues&#x2F;18</a><p>I&#x27;ve bitten by this before when doing Unity coding. I no longer do much of Unity dev, but I deal things where this makes big difference and I haven&#x27;t given serious try on Atom because of this. (I use VSCode which handles this correctly.)

Insert another rant about how atom is bloated compared to editors like sublime text, notepad++, and VScode (which I discovered recently and seems to be a clone of sublime text).