Re:Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
by wldcordeiro on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @12:49PM
(#8198359)
I don't think Atom is ready to replace Sublime yet for me. The way it renders text just bugs me for one. The other thing is that it's lacking a good way to do syntax specific settings like in Sublime. Aside from that it's a matter of the plugin ecosystem not being as mature.
Re:Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
by hydrozen on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @12:59PM
(#8198427)
Yeah, every font I’ve tried on Atom really doesn’t look good compared to ST on my mac. Even with css tweaks for antialiasing.
Re:Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
by smt88 on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @08:52PM
(#8200636)
Atom is awesome, but I agree that the plugins aren't mature enough yet.
Re:Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
by at-fates-hands on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @12:18PM
(#8198150)
>> no, but emacs and vim don't charge 60 bucks per version
Not that it matters much, but it's actually $70 now: http://www.sublimetext.com/buy
Anyways, theres no satisfying HN. When Atom came out, the consensus was that they should've come out and said it was an ST clone upfront. Now someone does that and it seems the tide has changed.
While we're on Atom, since switching I've found its everything ST should've been. Its open source and has a huge community developing very useful plugins (not to mention, they're well integrated from a usability perspective - git/terminal status/linter/etc). Also, I have yet to run into a serious bug/versioning issue which ST plugins were rife with before I dropped it.