I seriously doubt it.
First, people kept using TextMate when it was dead for 3 years or so. The most ST3 has been idle was 6-7 months, and before and after that the update pace (for dev releases) was great.
Second, it's not like anything major was missing from the editor even 2 years ago, or that it stopped working or anything. People use Vim which is a 30 years old codebase that hasn't had major updates in a great while, so not sure were the pressure for ST is.
Third, I doubt Atom has that much adoption. For one, it is and will always be slower, due to the language and rendering model (custom C++ vs Javascript and ultimately, the DOM).
As an anecdotal point, most people at work use either Vim or ST3. Nobody uses Atom.
>* Remember TextMate? It had a huge loyal user base, but who is using it now?*
You'd be surprised.
(I wanted to like Sublime and have a license, but Vintage mode is a too leaky abstraction/emulation for me ;).)
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.
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.
I haven't tried atom it didn't initially release with windows support so I just stayed on brackets.
[1]: http://brackets.io/
The reason why everybody is up in arms about every minor update is that a lot of people see every little peep from the dev as (hopeful) proof that the project isn't dead.
I was super excited about Intype in the past - much more excited about anybody could be about Sublime. After many, many years and ruined potential, I gave up. Just recently found that it's still alive. I remember e as well. It got open-sourced... and what? There are many editors, but Atom has all indications that's it's here to stay! I'm not so sure about Sublime given the patterns. A loyal community is not enough - a dedicated development team is what's most important!
I guess that they haven't been good at communicating that they are not in hiatus!
I like Atom's plugin ecosystem, and am rooting for the open source option, but it really is quite slow and buggy.
But i always get annoyed by how SLOW it is.
I love the concept. Just not enamoured with the execution.
It's still a lot slower than Sublime, but it's fine for me. (im not primarily a developer tho)
The difference in speed in these editors is so small that, if you find it's having a measurable effect on your productivity when coding, you may want to re-look at how you measure productivity or indeed how much time you're churning out code versus other development activities (thinking, planning, testing, talking).
So it's not so much '60 seconds of waiting for the editor in a day', as '2s delay opening that file so my brain switched to thinking about something else, slowing me down for 10+ mins'
"You shouldn't be opening large files in it anyhow" is a cop-out. My text editor needs to edit whatever text files I throw at it. Choking on too-large a file is a showstopper.
I love using atom, and sublime is nice but I haven't found a reason to purchase it and switch over yet.
Brackets is better in that regard. Both brackets and Atom provide better extensability APIs than Sublime - but that doesn't help when the performance is worse than complete IDEs.