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Re:Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage by debaserab2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:35PM (#14963016)
Sure. Variety is the spice of life and all that. Still, they are both electron based code editors that seem to have similar goals. Seems apt to compare them and worthy of discussion.

If you publish a new release and you happen to have a competitor in the same market that is currently eating your lunch people are naturally going to ask what makes it worthwhile to switch.

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Re:Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage by nkkollaw on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:36PM (#14963614)
> Seems apt to compare them and worthy of discussion

Sure, but that's not the tone used. Besides a few, most comments are dismissive of Atom and just point out how much better VSCode is and wondering why anyone would use Atom.

It's factions, like Mac vs. PC. There is no productive discussion, here.

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Re:Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage by debaserab2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:36PM (#14964060)
That's not true. I just got some great answers to my questions. You seem to be the one insisting this is some kind of a tribal thing and it's just not.
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Re:Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage by nkkollaw on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:40PM (#14964094)
Let's say that we had a different experience.

I wanted to find out more about this release, and all I got was that I should switch to VSCode.

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