Introducing Atom-IDE

Honestly can't see why I'd use this - I have all the professional grade IDEs I need, why do I need one that is written in JS, is slower and consumes 5x more memory? Not to mention IDEs already have their own extension stores too. This seems like an 'IDE-lite', which doesn't make much sense in a world where professional grade IDEs are free.

This seems aimed squarely at VSCode. VSCode does a lot of this now out of the box (or with a few extensions). I think Atom is really just trying to keep up. I personally do not believe they have the horsepower to compete with Microsoft here though. VSCode is a phenomenal product.

This seems to also have the BSD + Patents beloved by Facebook[0]. The virus is spreading.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook-atom&#x2F;atom-ide-ui&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;PATENTS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook-atom&#x2F;atom-ide-ui&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;PAT...</a>

Still playing catchup with VSCode, but without the integrated debugger and all the rest of its fancy tooling. Is it still mind-numbingly slow as well?<p>I can&#x27;t imagine switching back to Atom at this point, or even Sublime. For individual projects I might use IntelliJ or Visual Studio again, but outside of that VSCode is my exclusive editor for all languages for the foreseeable future. I&#x27;m very impressed by what Microsoft pulled off to be honest. (Blinking cursor jokes aside, of course)

In my opinion, this is how IDEs should be - make something better described as a text editor (like a fresh install of vim, sublime, or atom), and allow users to add more things to the light-weight(ish?) base. So many IDEs are overkill. Text editors with the right plugins can accomplish the same things but also be much more lightweight, and help you achieve a balance between &quot;IDE&quot; and &quot;text editor&quot;

I like how they downplay Microsoft&#x27; role in Language Server Protocol.

Unlike lots of the posters here, I see a real need for an IDE that&#x27;s completely free. I have used Eclipse and IntelliJ, and the bloat&#x2F;bug&#x2F;setup process in them is incredibly painful. However, I don&#x27;t know if we&#x27;re just going to add those problems into atom instead of what makes atom awesome - easy package management, fast text editing - and remove it.

&quot;It&#x27;s like the Atom editor but even slower!&quot;<p>I never managed to work with Atom as it is now. It&#x27;s just too slow. Now they are pushing it even further, I cannot imagine how much slower could still get.

So Atom is yet another editor supporting the language server protocol. Whether you like Atom or not, that&#x27;s good news. The more that editors support it, the easier it is for new languages to get a good IDE experience with many editors.

Given that even Eclipse runs faster, uses less resources and has a much better plugin ecosystem than Atom, no thanks.

Good luck against PHPStorm &#x2F; IntelliJ. Nothing comes close yet, worth every penny.

I Imagine this will run like mid-2000s Eclipse, but with 5 times worse performance.

So I pressed CTRL + F and typed in &quot;debug&quot; - zero results found. It seems like this is still a glorified text editor and not IDE-ish editor like Visual Studio Code.

Interesting to see no Ruby support, since Github runs on Rails. Maybe code completion is too hard with Ruby?

20Gb of RAM latter.

Lots of people talking about their preferred IDE&#x2F;editor here. It&#x27;s great that we can use what we choose, because the underlying standards - languages, runtimes, repositories - are so standardised. I sometimes swap to and fro on the same project. Not at all like UI development in the 80&#x27;s and 90&#x27;s, where you picked between, say, VB, Delphi, Omnis etc. and that&#x27;s what you were stuck with.<p>I use WebStorm&#x2F;IntelliJ for my daily drivers. Tried Atom a while ago and have been liking VSCode more recently (good for Rust) and was very impressed, but still prefer WebStorm for JavaScript. Recently prompted to try Atom again due to the plugin for Marko.js, and was pleasantly surprised. Performance on my 2013 16GB MBPro is fine and it seems overall cleaner and snappier than I remembered. Just installed this new IDE plugin and it&#x27;s instantly impressive. Good to see that the underpinnings of IDE functions are also becoming standardised thanks to LSP.

How is this different than Facebook&#x27;s Nuclide?

I like how this blog is not responsive. Atom is for desktop, so the blog has to be so.

This is interesting because language servers are interesting. I will probably hold out for a vim language server client that isn&#x27;t just a port of nvim&#x27;s.

Is this the fate of all text editors once they run out of ideas to implement ?<p>I for sure wouldnt use this, especially with the whole kite controversy just being over (is it ?).

I appreciate the extended support for LSP, but this seems to repeat the mistake VSCode made of requiring custom plugins for each backend you&#x27;d like to integrate. This increases the overhead for server authors and makes it less likely that language servers and clients actually match spec, if people give in to writing custom integrations that can paper over bugs.

Off-topic but does anyone know what that atom skin used in the screenshot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;378023&#x2F;29859731-741403be-8d9e-11e7-99c5-6b914e3fff9c.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;378023&#x2F;29859731-74...</a>) is called?

What I&#x27;d much rather have is a reasonable development on Android or iOS. I&#x27;ve tried some but it always felt awkward, even with a Bluetooth keyboard. Eventually it we&quot;ll get there as web apps are now fine replacements for desktop apps. Question is when.

Playing catch-up with VS Code.

I can&#x27;t believe it took this long for language servers and an open editor&#x2F;&quot;language smartness server&quot; comm protocol to be developed.

I hope they address memory consumption at some point too.

Flow is supported, but Reason is not ? I thought it would be the other way around.<p>Anyone know which one is what the React ecosystem is moving to ?

Is this a nicely packaged version of nuclide?

No golang support, going to pass for now.

Relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuclide.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuclide.io&#x2F;</a>

How is this different from Nuclide?

Can someone compare this to Visual Studio Code?<p>It seems to be the exact same thing?

what theme is used in the screen shots?

Sad.<p>Hoped they would cooperate with MS on VSCode

Why why why why why?<p>What is the point in this? Seriously. Please can someone enlighten me. Atom was bad enough with all of the other text editors are out there and not written in JS, but now you can&#x27;t even say it&#x27;s just a text editor. Facebook and the other contributors clearly have too much spare time on their hands.<p>JetBrains. End of.<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;

&gt; [Utilize] the power of language servers to provide deep syntactical analysis of your code and projects.<p>Having my code analyzed by others&#x27; servers just so I can have better autocomplete does not sound like something I want.