Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage

Re:Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage by ComputerGuru on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:23PM (#14962868)

I think Atom still exists because it got here first. I doubt it would have been created, let alone achieved the traction it has, had it not been "first to the market" in this particular niche.

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Re:Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage by nobleach on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:00PM (#14963786)

Oh I dunno.... back in the day, there was Texmate, and it was like a pretty Emacs. Then came Sublime, Coda and Espresso. That was an era of pretty text editors. I was used to vim, so all that beauty didn't really entice me. When Atom first was announced, I just figured it was another Sublime copy. I had no idea what Electron was at that time. I just thought... hmm, an editor from GitHub... ok... I'm sure there's some reason for it to exist. But from my perspective, it wasn't competing with other javascript/browser-in-a-box editors... it was just another in a long line.

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Re:Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage by computerex on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:20AM (#14967833)

Vim can be incredibly pretty/beautiful... Aesthetics isn't exclusive to modern text editors!

http://mohd-ali.com/images/aesthetic.png

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Re:Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage by ComputerGuru on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:08PM (#14965200)

I meant JS-extensible and open source.

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