Atom now using Io.js

Re:Atom now using Io.js by crucialfelix on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @05:32PM (#8993968)

Perhaps your computer might be older. Its blazingly fast on my machine. as people move to newer machines then speed is not going to be an issue.

Compared to Sublime, Atom developers can build much richer interfaces.

my own supercollider IDE in Atom:

https://atom.io/packages/supercollider

this is a full repl with a debugging call stack

haskell IDE:

https://atom.io/packages/ide-haskell

preview your development work in a web pane:

https://atom.io/packages/mobile-preview

but yet I think the packages are still young and there is much more that can be done. its early days.

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Re:Atom now using Io.js by mwcampbell on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @05:40PM (#8994015)

The trouble is that an editor shouldn't require a 2010+ MacBook Air in order to be blazing fast. As I recall, we were running syntax-highlighting editors on ~166 MHz Pentium machines in the mid 90s. Hell, maybe I even ran one on my old 80486 laptop.

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Re:Atom now using Io.js by awalton on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @06:35PM (#8994333)

I have a 2014 Macbook Pro and it's sluggish there. I have half a dozen Linux machines around me daily and it's entirely unusable on them. You can visibly tell when the GC is running, it's that terrible.

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Re:Atom now using Io.js by jsheard on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @08:48PM (#8994875)

Time to launch various editors on my SSD-backed, 4x4ghz Windows desktop:

ST3: Instantanous, VS2013: 1 second, Atom: 3 seconds

You know you've got problems when Visual Studio is running rings around you.

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