Anyone here use atom? I tried switching to it from sublime, gave it a solid 2 weeks but had to give up on it. Just painfully slow, regularly taking 5-10 seconds to open a work project and let me start working on it and would continue to be slow whilst working.

Back to sublime now, so much better...

as a designer i switched from sublime to atom to www.brackets.io
i find it faster, and the extensions are awesome.

I like it because it looks nicer and has some really cool extensions like 'Enable Power Mode' but it is so much slower than sublime and the multi cursor support is no where near as good.

Atom is nice and so is Brackets, but there's no beating Sublime's speed. I'm just waiting for Lime Text to become stable. Written in Go!

I did the exact same thing with Atom but only made it 2 days..

Yeah atom's appearance is what made me try it, and the user interface...but I just couldn't take the waiting anymore. I'd have to wait ages in comparison to something thats instant in sublime.

Like ctrl/cmd+p to find/switch to any file, atom would constantly be indexing but I would never see sublime "indexing" my files.

I miss a few things, like linters work and look much better in atom with a panel as opposed to in sublime it's just in the status bar and you have to click on a line to see the error for example, but I just can't handle how slow it is 🙁

@dev0urer last blog post on the like text sire is from 2014, is it still being developed?

@gcjohn still actively from what I can see

I love brackets, especially for web dev, but clion from jetbrains is really good for c++, though it ain't free.

Same here.. Tried it for 2-3 days, but found myself going back to ST..

I tried Brackets and VS Code as well, but somehow they don't ever match the speed of ST

Atom is the bomb.

if you're using some packages, atom is going to be your favorite Editor.

Why not try Visual Studio Code?

After months and months of dabbling and ad-hoc learning I've made the move to vim. never looked back :)

is vim good for webdevelopment?

@heyheni it's perfect for editing on Live. Not that anyone does that...

I would say using visual studio code is the best option for u. it's light weight. free and comes from Microsoft. gives u option for git repository and what not.

@void How is it better than Atom though, from what I could tell is almost the same. For me I would rather have something from GitHub than Microsoft.

@m0vntain it's funny people mentioning VS Code because the other guy on my team uses it.

I think I tried it for like a day, but to be honest I have such a hatred for Visual Studio that I just don't want to use VSCode. Perhaps I didn't give it much of a chance, but from what I remember things like keyboard shortcuts etc aren't standard like they are in most other editors and also I don't think it's as extensible as ST?

vscode is nice, but it still has a long way to go

the reason i stick to atom is because its has split view for terminal

Vim is perfect for everything. the problem you have is that it's a monster to learn. it took me 6 months on dabbling before I could actually start using it properly.

if you have the patience to build up the muscle memory it's a tool you'll never stop using.

if you like pretty editors you can make it look stunning with ligatures, antialiased text, any font you can imagine etc.

in short it's a wonderful monster.