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Atom 1.26

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  - Atom is good but...
  - Electron is heavy
  - It uses X GB of RAM on my machine    
  - It's cross platform though  
  - Beautiful website too!  
  - Why is Visual Studio Code so much better?   
  - It doesn't compare with [vim/emacs/nano/ed/Sublime Text]

This is a summary of 90% of the content of Atom release threads on HN.

> Why is Visual Studio Code so much better?

To be fair Microsoft has been building IDE tooling for a lot longer than GitHub has been around so if VS Code was somehow worse than Atom I'd be worried. I don't wanna get into Atom vs other editors but Atom does get some things right that I wish VS Code would adopt, like changing settings has an actual view vs just a JSON file.

Yeah, VSCode’s solution is slightly better than hand editing JSON but Atom’s handling of config is the best.

Thank you for summarizing this. I think you saved the global economy about 50 collective high paying IT hours :-)

BTW, the long term plan to remedy the Atom performance seems to be this: https://github.com/atom/xray

Just in case people skimming Atom news don't think they are acknowledging the problem.

Still Electron though, but onlt for the view. Much of the "controller" moved to Rust, including writing it from the ground up to take advantage of safe, easier parallelism from Rust. Text will also be rendered with WebGL, so hardware accelerated. All in all, looks pretty ambitious! It seems like it will take until 2019 for even a tech preview though.

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