Sublime VS. Atom: Will GitHub's Text Editor Beat the Standing Champion?

Nobody I know personally or work with daily uses Sublime Text. Therefore I could just as easily declare Sublime Text a "unknown and unused text editor relegated to obscurity".

Vim is nice, but some things are better done with the mouse. Selecting and moving text down a few lines is so much faster in ST. And there's a Vim plugin for it anyway, so you can have the benefits of both Vim controls and a good interface. ST really is a great editor and to get Vim even close in terms of functionality, it takes way too much time configuring it.

Of course, this is all anecdotal. It's likely that the vast majority of working developers never post screencasts or really discuss their editor of choice, and just get on with their work. So in terms of code actually created, it's a very poor assessment.

I always thought browsers and development for the web is more complicated then it should be so bringing that mess over to the desktop is just a bad idea.

I really wish Sublime would be Open Sourced already the developer should have gotten its moneys worth by now and is clearly not investing much time into it so let the community take over.

This coming from someone who actually payed for Sublime since i considered i got enough value from it.

There are definitely ways to incorporate Javascript into "native" programming. In Yosemite you can write Javascript that directly loads and calls native frameworks (like you can with Python/ Ruby). If you wanted you could write an entire application in Javascript, but taking shortcuts and trying to use HTML and the DOM for your interface only leads to these sorts of severe issues when doing anything nontrivial.

If you don't care about improving developer experience, then get off MY lawn.

For api docs see https://atom.io/docs/api/v0.175.0/TextEditor

But also one that seems to have been forgotten for a while. I've used many text editors that where much much slower at search&replace than the trusty Unix tools of old. If a modern text editor comes along and rediscovers those old tricks again then that is definitely worth mentioning.

However... It is slower than SublimeText 3, noticeably slower. I tend to keep applications open for weeks, using "sleep" mode overnight, and Atom still tends to crash after several hours. This means I don't use it for real work, yet.

While Atom does indeed keep getting better, ST3 is becoming more and more frustrating as package updates now have a tendency to vomit errors when ST3 starts up. It complains about not being able to load a config file for the package (like Rust mode or the Cobalt theme). When this happens, ST3 disables the package, but a restart will clear the hiccups.

SublimeText is clearly the better editor, yet there has been no progress on the beta. Worse, this has caused a division of effort among third party providers who have to support ST2 and ST3, with no clear end in sight for an ST3 stable release.

Similarly with a comment on downloads on cellular networks and caps - again, if someone says "I have a plan that limits me to 4Gb", who actually, sincerely thinks that that means "four gigabits, i.e. 500 megabytes" as opposed to 4 gigabytes?

I guess I fail to see what value you're adding to the conversation, particularly given the tone. It's clear you know exactly what the poster meant, but rather than acknowledging it, you've offered some fairly unhelpful, sarcastic remark instead.