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Re:Sublime Text 3 Build 3080 by kolev on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @03:45AM (#9255310)
Atom is not that slow in practice... except the slow startup, for daily business it's fine - I'm using it with a full suite of linters and autocomplete plugins on the older MacBook Air and it's not laggy.
Re:Sublime Text 3 Build 3080 by qubitcoder on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @04:58AM (#9255491)
I've made a few attempts to use Atom on a daily basis. Unfortunately, I continued to experience crashes with the linter, autocomplete, and Haskell-related plugins--or the plugins would work, only to break during the next Atom update. It also wasn't possible to use my favorite ligature-based font without breaking the cursor position. Not to mention the rendering/performance issues.

There's a lot to admire about Atom. But Sublime is stable and silky smooth. And I continue to use Vim happily every day without issue, despite its ~25 year age.

Re:Sublime Text 3 Build 3080 by Already__Taken on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @05:29AM (#9255567)
If you're that interested to try the atom browser might I suggest having a look at Brackets[1]? It was out before atom and I have been using it to replace ST3 just because I liked the idea of it.

I haven't tried atom it didn't initially release with windows support so I just stayed on brackets.

[1]: http://brackets.io/

Re:Sublime Text 3 Build 3080 by melling on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @03:52AM (#9255326)
There seem to be a lot of performance related issues:

https://github.com/atom/atom/search?q=performance&state=open...

If it works for you, great. Hope you contribute and it becomes a great editor someday.

Re:Sublime Text 3 Build 3080 by bdcravens on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @04:00AM (#9255343)
It does some weird things in full screen, especially if you have multiple windows going. I've closed one window, but the save dialog pops up on another... but when I swipe over, that dialog goes away, and the modal that I can't click on blocks the rest of the UI. Nothing but a force kill can resolve it. I've been using it 4-12 hours a day for several months, so I'm rooting for it, but losing work will always trump whatever OSS cred it has.