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Re:Atom 1.12 released by bluejekyll on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:24AM (#12921744)
Hate? Does it? I use Atom for Rust development, and so far it's the best I use there. From that I started using it for some JavaScript, and now for other languages which have less IDE support out there.

It's an excellent editor IMO and easier to configure than emacs, gets support for new languages etc faster than the IntelliJ derivatives.

At this point the only thing I really miss (I haven't set it up yet) is a steppable code debugger, and smart code refactoring, like IntelliJ's excellent method renames or variable reordering operations.

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Re:Atom 1.12 released by allendoerfer on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:52AM (#12921991)
> I use Atom for Rust development.

I think that sentence is funny. It also explains the hate. Ideally highly optimized tools would be used to use/create/run more user-facing, less optimized tools.

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Re:Atom 1.12 released by bluejekyll on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:33PM (#12922911)
People are working on that in Rust, but it's taking a little while.
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