Re:Atom 1.12 released
by JetSetWilly on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:27AM
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Atom is developed by paid professionals at github, it isn't really a community led project like emacs.
Not that that matters, because nothing is immune from criticism, free or otherwise. It is a useful service to provide criticism, in fact, it can be useful to the developers and also useful to potential users - although it doesn't have to be.
Re:Atom 1.12 released
by FooBarWidget on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:05PM
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There is a difference between providing useful, constructive criticism and rude complaining.
Re:Atom 1.12 released
by JetSetWilly on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:45PM
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Pointing out that the technology platform chosen makes features simple elsewhere into multi-year odysseys seems fine to me. I think maybe atom users are too close to it, so have heard such things before and react very negatively to it. For me it was interesting to learn it took significant work to provide this support.
yes but "look at how long it took them to add X feature!" isn't useful critisim, it's a put-down.
The product isn't going to improve because the developers felt worse about finally getting a requested feature in.
Politely requesting features is fine, but complaining about a lack of features in software that you don't contribute to with effort or money is extremely rude and pretty much a slap to the face for the developers who work on the project.