Atom Is Now Open Source

Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by digerata on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @01:47PM (#7705994)

I'm still trying to find out why a great company like GitHub would shamelessly copy Sublime Text 2. It's one thing to say we need to build another text editor because nothing out there gives you what you need. But to say we need another text editor and then copy Sublime... What the heck is that?

I installed it today for the first time because this was the first time I didn't need to be in a special club to use it.

I opened a directory of source that ST opens instantly. This thing took 5 seconds to open. Then when I quit the app, I get an "Editor is not responding." message. Everything feels sluggish.

This is progress people!

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Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by georgemcbay on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @02:01PM (#7706075)

Atom is no more a shameless copy of Sublime Text than Sublime Text is of TextMate.

Having said that, I do agree that the sluggishness of many of these "modern" editors (including Sublime Text, which even at ST3 is quite a bit slower at opening large files than it should be) really is quite a shame.

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Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by math0ne on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @08:24PM (#7707969)

Most text editors look almost exactly the same, my VIM and emacs look almost identical to sublime, and if i wanted i could make it identical.

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Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by digerata on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @02:11PM (#7706134)

I wish we could post images so you could look at a blind comparison...

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Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by greggman on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @02:17PM (#7706177)

This isn't a copy of sublime. The fact that it effectively runs in a browser opens up all kinds of possibilities. Insert an inline IMG, canvas, webgl, video, svg. I'm hoping to see some amazing extensions from this

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Re:Atom Is Now Open Source by CmonDev on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @07:23AM (#7709562)

It's hard to avoid copying when implementing a basic notepad type of app with some syntax high-lighting and a trendy colour scheme.

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