Re:Atom now using Io.js
by peferron on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @04:48PM
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Why do all threads about Go seem to be full of people who cannot live without generics?
Snark aside, feature X is rarely absolutely needed (you can replace your generics by some boilerplate; you can use grep instead of your text editor to process huge files), but in some cases it can make your work significantly easier and that's why people want it.
In my own case, opening video files in Sublime and having the hex and ASCII side-by-side made my job significantly easier when I was writing a parser. I could easily select portions of the data (e.g. an embedded metadata), annotate it with comments from the spec, then paste it in a unit test.
I have Atom installed, but see no reason to migrating since Sublime works well enough. My only concern is that the Sublime package ecosystem will likely start rotting now that Sublime itself is essentially abandonware, so at some point I might need e.g. autocompletion for Typescript and the best package will be on Atom, not Sublime.
Snark aside, feature X is rarely absolutely needed (you can replace your generics by some boilerplate; you can use grep instead of your text editor to process huge files), but in some cases it can make your work significantly easier and that's why people want it.
In my own case, opening video files in Sublime and having the hex and ASCII side-by-side made my job significantly easier when I was writing a parser. I could easily select portions of the data (e.g. an embedded metadata), annotate it with comments from the spec, then paste it in a unit test.
I have Atom installed, but see no reason to migrating since Sublime works well enough. My only concern is that the Sublime package ecosystem will likely start rotting now that Sublime itself is essentially abandonware, so at some point I might need e.g. autocompletion for Typescript and the best package will be on Atom, not Sublime.