Atom 1.0

Congrats to the team for reaching this important milestone.<p>I&#x27;m a Sublime license holder, but I use Atom as much as I can, because the more open source can win, the better.<p>However, yesterday I was doing some complex regex&#x27;s (porting a random sql dump file into a seeds.rb), and Atom kept dying, whereas Sublime was pretty much instantaneous.<p>I&#x27;m not doing the usual &quot;Atom is slow&quot; drum beating, but saying some undertones of the announcement make me worry a bit. I hear discussion of things like Electron and &quot;social coding&quot; as the future, and I&#x27;m hoping that means that no one considers 1.0 to equate to the core editing experience being finished. It&#x27;s not, and I hope the Atom team continues to iterate before moving on to new features.<p>Being able to open files larger than 2MB isn&#x27;t sexy, but it&#x27;s necessary. Having to hard-kill my editor because the save dialog is trapped on my other full screen session that it won&#x27;t let me get to deserves more than a &quot;but it&#x27;s open source&quot; response.<p>tl;dr congrats team and your core users want the best editor possible over bells and whistles

Wow... just downloaded the windows installer version and it autoinstalled itself wherever it chose fit, without questioning, it installed shortcuts on the start menu, placed itself on an already bloated contextual menu on several file extensions as an Open option, instead on &quot;Open with...&quot;, etc.<p>I usually install software on my user folder on the work laptop, as I don&#x27;t have enough priviledges. This time the installer worked, but why override the questions to the user, like install location, etc.? There&#x27;s a standard for Windows installers, why did they ignore it? Not cool.

The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That&#x27;s not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it&#x27;s just what draws me to Atom.<p>It&#x27;s super easy to hack on and contribute to.

Congratulations GitHub and Atom team!<p>Atom is my favourite editor for coding in, and it just keeps getting better.<p>I introduced my team to it today (pre 1.0 release, this is a nice surprise) and they were surprised by how pleasant the experience was - just a few minor hiccups. We&#x27;ve tried a bunch of editors and usually stick with Sublime because it&#x27;s easiest to use while pairing, but I think that will change now.<p>Sorry for the tough HN crowd, you can never please them.<p>Here&#x27;s to Atom 2.0 &lt;3

I&#x27;ve gotta say, honestly, I&#x27;m preferring Visual Studio Code over Atom simply due to the fact that it seems MUCH more stable and lightweight. Atom is very visually appealing, and I&#x27;m a fan of the project, in general, but it constantly freezes up and crashes on me. I think I&#x27;ll be sticking with VS Code &amp; Sublime.

I find it to be a bit depressing that software bloat has advanced to the point that we have text editors plagued with performance issues.

I made the switch yesterday not knowing 1.0 would be released today, and I am seriously psyched. Their Vim bindings are now good enough, and there are tons of tweaks you can do to make them better (which will inspire more people to contribute). I found a few bugs here and there related to installing &#x2F; removing packages (just checked and 1.0 fixes them), but nothing major, and was able to migrate my mammoth .vimrc configuration file over over the course of an afternoon, with everything I need having already been developed by the community. Super fast, too.<p>Also! I was able to create the colorscheme of my dreams in about 15 minutes, thanks to to the dev tools integration.

Eh. Why is 1.0 out already? Keyboard layouts which use AltGr are still broken.<p>E.g. I can&#x27;t type &#x27;@&#x27;, &#x27;\&#x27;, and &#x27;µ&#x27;. Yes, I can&#x27;t write metadata annotations or escape some characters.

I really want to like Atom but it&#x27;s such a pity that they went for CoffeeScript instead of plain ES5&#x2F;ES6.

I had initially dismissed the whole thing as folly as JavaScript is really stupid, but I had someone install Atom the other day and came to learn that it is really quite an impressively great editor these days.<p>The ease of finding and installing themes and plugins is unparalleled.<p>Considering trying it for a week or two as my daily driver (with vim mode, of course.)

Atom is the ONLY editor which cannot handle my keyboard layout properly so I can&#x27;t write brackets :D ([]) I reported it on the first day when the alpha came out, still no fix for this. Let me put it this way: I CAN&#x27;T WRITE BRACKETS IN A TEXT EDITOR. LOL

I am loathe to install something like Atom with a 4MB limit on file size and 80 MB install size when Sublime Text does the same or better in a 8 MB install package with no limits.

Just downloaded and opened Atom for the first time, and I have to admit the look and feel is amazing! Fantastic job to all those involved!<p>However, one thing that stands out to me, the file size of Atom.app is 203MB!! How in the world can a text editor be that large? Compare that with MacVim, which is about 27MB.

I am a paying customer of Sublime Text, but I will give Atom a try. They both seem really similar feature-wise, but Atom is open source, something I care about. Also is based on web technologies, which is really cool (although I&#x27;ve heard it&#x27;s not so fast).

For anyone wondering, Python indentation of new lines inside lists, tuples, etc. is still broken (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom&#x2F;language-python&#x2F;issues&#x2F;22" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom&#x2F;language-python&#x2F;issues&#x2F;22</a>). However, it looks like hitting tab at least allows you to manually indent the line, which is a passable bridge until it works properly. Auto-indent will completely remove any manual indentation, however, which seems like something that should be fixed.

Is it still limited to only editing files &lt; 2 Megabytes? For most people that is not a showstopper, but it may be for some.

i have been using it for 3-4 months now and its getting there each month. Sometimes the plugins fail but this could be because of the rapid development cycle of atom. On the positive side, its a good text editor, easy interaction, plugin install super easy. A downside is that its not easy on your ram though. Consumes more than what vim would do. But overall, if you need a modern editor, this is the way forward.

Have they fixed the sluggishness ?<p>The installer is almost 10x times as large as the sublime text installer.<p>Please leave &quot;web technologies&quot; where they belong.

I don&#x27;t know why, but is very slow on my computer and I have 8Gb of RAM &#x2F; i3 This message appears everytime <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;hTZixD8.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;hTZixD8.png</a>

Congrats!<p>I started using Atom a year ago, but at that time it was very unstable and the performance sucks so I switched back to Vim.<p>This 1.0 still has something to pine for: some of the essential packages are still not updated for the 1.0 API (vim-mode, etc), and when processing large files it still slows down significantly, but as they say, it&#x27;s now a good foundation to build upon.

I was lucky enough to get a key to use Atom when it first came out. I was not very impressed at the time, with its limited capabilities, so I ended up switching to Brackets for a while.<p>Later in my search for an editor that handles EJS, I rediscovered Atom. It really has improved since it first started. AFAIK, Atom and Sublime are the only editors that handle EJS. I also use Atom to edit JS, JSX, gradle, and FTL which work well as well. Still I stick to IntelliJ for most programming languages since I haven&#x27;t found a way to get code completion, reference jumping, etc to work on Atom.<p>Very impressive work from the Atom team and the contributors!

I so desperately want to like Atom (and Code), but I have a window refresh issue with it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.atom.io&#x2F;t&#x2F;display-does-not-refresh-when-focus-is-taken-off-of-atom-win7x64&#x2F;15589" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.atom.io&#x2F;t&#x2F;display-does-not-refresh-when-focu...</a>).<p>This issue is still present in the current release. It seems like a minor annoyance but when it happens it really kills my productivity.

I still haven&#x27;t given Atom a go. Is it worth switching from ST3?

Congrats! I still prefer emacs but perhaps not for long (I use both day to day)...

Maybe something worth pointing out..<p>I wanted to download this but after clicking every link I still hadn&#x27;t seen a way to do it anywhere...<p>Obviously if I go to the homepage now the first thing I see is a big download link, which is great.<p>I think a &#x27;download&#x27; link on the site though would be good since if anyone links ANYWHERE else it&#x27;s hard to find.

It&#x27;s only fashion. There&#x27;re no hard facts why someone should prefer it to vim, notepad++ or sublime or even a proper IDE like a Jetbrains product or Visual Studio.

I tried atom, the only thing I liked about it was design and color scheme, the rest are superior in sublime text, so I just went ahead and created a theme&#x2F;color scheme for sublime which matches atom (1). Atom is laggy, even basic file navigation using arrows can be slow sometimes (and I have a latest retine macbook pro).<p>But the biggest issue for me is a battery usage, it reduces my battery usage on RMBP15 by 2 hours compared to sublime text, I am mostly working from remote places and having a good battery usage is vital for me.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.evernote.com&#x2F;shard&#x2F;s21&#x2F;sh&#x2F;cc73487c-08c9-4937-ac69-8070c9b253f5&#x2F;6b957b0938a218f0&#x2F;res&#x2F;3d36bb47-b576-4df4-9f92-2d2e8a696b66&#x2F;skitch.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.evernote.com&#x2F;shard&#x2F;s21&#x2F;sh&#x2F;cc73487c-08c9-4937-ac6...</a>

Seriously, creators of Atom, what feature did you not find in any of the current text editors that you had to built one. Let&#x27;s have a editor in every language!!!

Both emacs keybinding emulation packages are sub-optimal. One misses C-p, the other misses C-e, both basic editor movement commands. Not impressed.

I have this way of picking technologies where I will try a bunch of them at the same time and naturally gravitate to the one that works best for me. After using Notepad++, ST2, and Atom I feel that Atom works best for me. I rarely have to use Google to find out how to use some features and it&#x27;s reasonably snappy.<p>I do need to give Visual Studio Code a fair shot. Heard a lot of good things about it.

I remember when Atom beta came out I was turned off because it (presumably) didn&#x27;t run on Windows(my workstation at the time).<p>Then I remember trying to give it a try once again a few months ago but gave up because I&#x27;ve heard so many horror story about performance issues.<p>Now I&#x27;m willing to give it yet another try because of vim-bindings and performance issue improvements. Is it at workable state?

I wrote a small guide to set up Atom for web development:<p>www.developingandstuff.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;setting-up-atom-for-rails-development.html

what&#x27;s up with name reuse these days. atom (the syndication format) may be on the verge of becoming obsolete, but it&#x27;s also forgotten and irrelevant already to warrant a name reuse?

With the following Atom community packages, I basically have a Rust IDE: linter, linter-rust, build, language-rust, racer

So where do I get that nifty terminal they were using in the video?

The site is severely hammered right now. I&#x27;d like to try it again to see if the performance issues have improved.

Huge milestone! Congrats.<p>And in case you&#x27;re wondering about the video, well, its this 50 year old documentary &quot;The Home Of The Future: Year 1999 A.D.&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4</a>

woo! awesome work. I use atom for everything now.<p><pre><code> ...but realizing the full potential of Atom is about more than polish. We&#x27;re considering questions such as: What does super deep git integration look like? What does &quot;social coding&quot; mean in a text editor? How do we enable package authors to build IDE-level features for their favorite language? </code></pre> O_o you what?<p>Things I&#x27;m interested in ---&gt; A hackable, fast, extensible editor.<p>Things I have no interest in at all ---&gt; &#x27;Super Deep&#x27; github integration, &#x27;social&#x27; coding in my text editor.<p>Dont get me wrong, atoms a great piece of work, and making it extensible for building custom tooling is really great, but what <i>on earth</i> are you talking about?<p>I hope this is just &#x27;and now we&#x27;re going to make some plugins&#x27; talking...

A lot of people complain about the slowness of the Dom&#x2F;JavaScript backend, but I see a lot of potential for some really cool things, like integrated juPyter notebooks, semi wysiwyg rendering of latex and markdown and maybe drawing rendering trees or other creative things.

It&#x27;s nice that they provide a .deb, but a signed repository&#x2F;PPA would be really great.

I always liked the Winamp approach: ship a core system with a base set of plugins, and implement new functionality via new plugins. The base system almost never changes, and version updates are simply a new payload of plugins.<p>Why do the best plugins need to be added back to base? Why not just keep them separate. Believe it or not Firefox was originally written in this fashion, but right around the time they added built-in spellcheck, new functionality started appearing as additions to the base system as opposed to browser extensions. Why?

Is it possible to use atom right in the browser, rather than in a separate app? I know facebook engineers have an in-browser editor.. is this atom or something else?

Pretty cool intro vid. A breath of fresh air from the typical startup&#x2F;product videos I encounter everywhere. I&#x27;m excited to see how this progresses. The development appears to be extremely active, with frequent + quality updates. Spotted the new-ish Office Code Pro[1] font in use too...<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nathco&#x2F;Office-Code-Pro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nathco&#x2F;Office-Code-Pro</a>

I&#x27;m surprised that in their vision for Atom GitHub doesn&#x27;t mention integrating Atom as the webeditor for GitHub.com. I always assumed it used web technology so it could form the foundation of a online IDE integrated closely with GitHub.com It will be interesting to see if this happens and what Koding, Nitrous.io, Cloud9, CodeAnywhere, Codio and CodeEnvy will do. At GitLab we currently have no plans in this direction.

Downloaded it and added Facebook&#x27;s Nuclide plugin suite but many things seem to not work. the mercurial plugin doesn&#x27;t appear to function at all and frequently the config section where you list installed plugins just seems to hang, without loading anything. I&#x27;ll stick with Webstorm (favorite) and Brackets (favorite &quot;Atom like&quot; editor) and vim (favorite command line). Atom seems too buggy to me.

Can anyone explain to me why startup speed is such an important factor for them?<p>I really can&#x27;t get my head around it. It&#x27;s such a non-issue for me.<p>I care so much more about general performance post-startup. I wouldn&#x27;t even bring startup speed up as an issue as long as it&#x27;s in the few-seconds range, which it always was for me using Atom.

I have to say amazing job to the team. My reason: last time I looked&#x2F;was regularly using Atom the generic memory size was around 100mB if I remember correctly. I just checked with 1.0 and the memory size has now dropped below Sublime Text 3.0 (~70mB) to ~60mB. (OS X.10)

Cool video and great copy-writing.<p>The editor still seems crude though. The new install used some old packages from a previews install that I though was uninstalled!? It also called home to report a bug without asking for permission. Then it froze after I had uninstalled the old package.

Go To Matching Bracket taking almost 2 seconds in atom, happens instantaneously on vim&#x2F;sublime.

Ok I gotta ask.<p>Is there no recent files menu? Or am I just missing where they placed it?<p>I do like the find&#x2F;replace UI compared to ST3, but the lack of a recents menu and it choking if I accidentally click a large file just aren&#x27;t making me feel the need to swap to this.

alias mate=&quot;atom&quot; - old habits die hard.

I am really tempted to give it a try but I am already all setup with Brackets and I am having a hard time understanding what are the benefits if I make the switch over Atom. I will surely give it a try a some point!

Have they resolved the long-standing performance issues present for the last six months? I&#x27;ve tried using Atom numerous times, but the longer it runs, the less stable it gets.

Nice, this is the first thing i start in the morning, use all day and close at the end of the day. I&#x27;m using Atom with monokai and linter and love it.<p>That mid century video is hilarious.

I think Atom could still have better performance. It wouldn&#x27;t hurt to have performance tips for package developers too (maybe it has, and I missed them).

I like Atom, was using for few days and I&#x27;m quite happy, also seems much like Sublime Text experience when first launch after Textmate &quot;dies&quot;

Is there anyone with a BGR subpixel-order monitor who has been able to configure Atom (or VS code for that matter) to do the right kind of antialiasing?

What is this? I can&#x27;t even tell. A text editor?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atom.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atom.io&#x2F;</a> is down, btw.

Just tried to install Nuclide and Atom complained about atom.io being unavailable. Guess I know why now.

Off topic Does anyone here use Light Table? If so - what do you think of it compared to atom?

I still cannot search for whole word expressions in directories without using RegEx, bummer.

Broke the default font, ugh! Anyone know how to get the old font back?

They should do a LOST remake of that Atom Youtube Video ;)

Congrats to the Atom team:) what happened to rAtom?

I&#x27;d rather write vimscript than coffeescript.

I had assumed this was browser-based, but upon visiting the site I see there is an installer. Can this editor run in a browser? If not, what&#x27;s the point?

How do anyone run tox from atom editor?

can it handle files larger than 2MB yet? :P<p><i>Incredible</i> promo video though!!!

The absolute disregard for any thanks for the Chromium team in the announcement is disgusting and a slap in the face to the foundation this editor is based on.

What is it?

I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a few problems with this software, just like others. After reading some of these FWP, and the whining...I dunno, man. There are people throwing acid in the face of girls on the other side of the world, and you&#x27;re all complaining about having to go into the registry and manually remove context menus.<p>I don&#x27;t know anything about Atom, but I&#x27;m willing to bet there&#x27;s really nothing this software is doing that prevents you from sleeping at night.