Re:Atom 1.14
by thescribe on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:42PM
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I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".
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It's not psychological: https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-...
Wow. Significantly slower than the IDEs I used to think were bloated JVM beasts.
This is one of the reasons preventing me to switch from Sublime.
The other reason is slowness to open a single file from the CLI, it seems Atom doesnt reuse the already open shell like sublime does, there was a tracked issue for that one.
Now I want to see the results from neovim, or anything with a client/server architecture. I'm surprised emacs is so slow (compared to vim) and I wonder if that explains it.
The author of the article I posted has the executable he used to test available if you want to try it yourself!
Yeah it has this weird UI lag, it always feels like using a website rather than an app to me, one of the reasons I always go back to sublime text (3) after trying out releases now and then to make sure I'm not being foolish or missing out on something better. I like the idea that it's open source but I really don't like the idea of it being a heavy javascript app, on my slower laptop you really notice it's memory usage after a short while also.
Re:Atom 1.14
by chessweb01 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:49PM
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Atom is my editor of choice due to the Platform.IO extension for IOT development. On my machine, just starting Atom 1.13 involved two interruptions by message boxes saying "Editor is not responding" which had to be closed manually in order to continue with the start-up process. Those annoying boxes have vanished completely with 1.14., so there is some significant performance improvement.
It's super-slow, and freezes many times more than Sublime.
I like that it's more foolproof, though. Granted it's a product built for developers, it's nice to have a GUI for installing themes and plugins, and for configuring it. This aspect is what keeps me from switching to Sublime.
Im not sure what you mean, Sublime has a GUI for installing themes and plugins. And is a config file really that difficult?
I wouldn't say it's difficult, just cumbersome and with no advantage over a GUI.