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Still can't use it for reviewing a commit (git commit -va) kills my MBPr.

But glad things are moving forward. Still haven't decided between Atom and Sublime though..

I really like the idea behind Atom, it's what I "want" to like. But Sublime is just so superior in terms of speed and feel that I keep going back. Working in Atom has that feel as if I was sitting in a remote desktop view while coding.

Well, ST has been around little longer, so there is still time for Atom to catch up.

It has fundamentally hugely more overhead than ST so really doesn't have a chance in the speed stakes.

It's not technically possible for Atom to catchup with SublimeText in terms of speed, unless their is a big leap in quantum computing.

I think the line between "IDE" and "Editor" is starting to blur, and Atom is toward the IDE side of that scale.

I personally still use Notepad++ as my "editor". Quick things like a git commit, just looking over a single log file or something, etc... Basically when i don't plan to be using it for more than a few minutes.

Atom comes out when i do development. It's more-or-less my IDE at this point. And when viewed through that lense, it starts faster than jetbrains does!

This. I was using WebStorm for a while, but with all the inline jshint support and es6 support, atom has been really nice. I have a strange issue where [esc] doesn't close my search box, but other than that and the CPU usage it's been great. I wanted rainbow brackets for a long time, and it finally looks like someone's done it: https://atom.io/packages/swackets

Just a heads up, i really liked swackets, but it ended up wreaking havoc with atom.

It was slow, it messed with tern-js a bit, and the brackets would "pop" into the viewport whenever i scrolled.

That was about a month ago so it may be better now.

I have the same issue. I think it's because of changes on the autocomplete settings, but I can't pinpoint it.

Have you had any lock? It's annoying as hell as there is no close button either.

Me too, but I think I will settle with Atom eventually. Price of the sublime itself is acceptable, but then also sftp plugin is another $30... Or is there some other worthwhile alternative?

Vim? Takes some setting up/learning but everything I ever wanted is 'out there'. Amazing plugins for git, linting, code completion, whatever you can think of some one has done/is doing. I used to use Textmate a lot, tried sublime, Atom etc. I'll never go back. (Sorry, but someone had to be 'that guy'.)

I've been a happy vim user for 10+ years. I took Atom for a spin last week and I absolutely love it. There's a vim mode package for Atom that implements some vim features (not all, obviously) here https://github.com/atom/vim-mode

Sublime is also closed source (I could live with that alone) and somewhat secretly developed. Releases seem random. ST3 is, in my opinion, worse than ST2. It's acceptable for beta, but I don't know what happens with ST2 now. Am I stuck without updates? What was the point of major version change in the first place?

Python was updated from 2 to 3 among other things

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