Whats so bad about Atom Jow Forums?

It's a really, really fat editor. It has its own fucking package manager and runs in a full-blown web browser, while also running a JS-based "server" backend for file access.

you see, im not looking for excuses
I am genuinely asking. I have never used Atom or Emacs

VS code will crash when opening some large files, atom opens them flawlessly.

reverse that and you're right

Literally have a file at work that will crash vscode 100% of the time, even after rebuilding the file.
Never had such an issue with atom and atom is easily able to open the file.
I prefer working with vscode either way, but atom is way more ricable which I like.

Does it read email yet?

What's wrong with it being fat

Fat as in rich with features I assume

bloat

Does every program need to read email?

Literally because it takes up more hardrive space?

Maybe uninstall some of your weeb VR porn games you fucking neckbeard

it's nice that atom uses the dom because it's just css to style it exactly how you want.

it's bad that atom uses the dom because once there are 100,000+ elements, it tends to shit the bed. Go open a 100mb file, you'll see.

Fat as in unoptimized. Any feature it has could be implemented in a way that consumes much fewer resources in an editor that also consumes much fewer resources.
RAM and CPU time

You're just pretending, right?

catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

See this is the kind of answer I am looking for

If you want the customizability that atom provides, you will not achieve much better performance than atom. If you don't need that, no problem use something else.

everything

Good point, but many editors will have trouble opening a file that large. And most people don't need to.

Ok so I'm settling on emacs. I better not be getting memed

Why not redoxOS

Its not vim and its bloated. It serves as a quick check for bad devs at least. Everytime I see an atom/vscode fag I make sure I make a mental note that they're bad.
Neovim/Vim/Emacs/Spacemacs or even a fucking IDE is a better option than one of those cucked editors

>atom
>performance
Atom has no performance. For a mere text editor to be such a hog is unheard of.

Is NeoVim worth looking at? I am always interested in using Vim but it intimidates me

that's because its a text editor built on the dom you dummy. For small files its perfectly fast.

Runs fine on my machine. And vi can't have a glowing cursor which explodes everytime you type.

I use NeoVim as a software engineer writing C and on the side for Rails meme web app development. It's so fucking nice once you get it set up and I've never had the same productivity in any other editor or environment.

Fucking sick m8 I'll definitely check it out

bloated piece of shit made by faggots just because they can't program anything useful without using java or themes that make your fonts sparkle like a fucking fictional magical pony

this

Who the fuck doesn't want their hard work to sparkle?

It's a fantastic, super flexible open source editor that can't handle large files in the slightest. Plus there are some minor performance issues overall.

If they fix performance, I'd go back from VS Code. It's a damn good editor.

Maybe that its written in coffeescript so performance is pure shit and the program itself weigtht's 80 MB. But it has great functionality and tons of extension directly downloadable. And it is usable out of the box

>java and JavaScript is the same
And I use assemblyscript

>sparkle

fucking code .. sparkle...

elaborate pls

They can't even into encoding PNGs properly
Goes well with the whole bloatware narrative

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bump

Lol no. Whatever you don't like about Atom, Atom still beats VS Code by virtue of not being produced by microshit

It's javascript retardo

You're right dude. Fuck em

yeah you tell them!
>tfw Chrome tab
lol is this thing literally just Chrome with some Javascript slapped on top?

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>sparkle

Taken directly from Atom's source code:

import fs from 'fs'
import stream from 'stream'
import readline from 'readline'

const myCode = fs.createReadStream('nothinguseful.java');
const sparkleyCode = new stream;
let reader = readline.createInterface(myCode, sparkleyCode);

reader.on('line', line => console.log(`/*SUNSHINE!!!!*/ ${line} /*RAINBOWS!!!*/`));
reader.on('close', () => console.log('LIKE A FUCKING FICTIONAL MAGICAL PONY!!!!'));

Electron

>some Javascript slapped on top?
All of fucking Node.js
Plus some other bloat

VScode is superior. It's the only good thing microsoft has ever done.

neither can you. mine is 58 bytes less

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Idk I like atom.
I use it for latex shit since I can build and see my pdf in the same editor. I use it a lot for writing shit in C or verilog at work. Most people here use Vim but I feel more productive with atom.

It's not atom

yet you still left 10 extra bytes in there

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No. Visual Studio however is the only good thing Microsoft has ever done. vscode is still shit

stop posting bloated images, save gook moot space

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I've used both Vim and Atom, and I like both. I think Vim is better, but I'm not quite there in terms of how to customize it as much as I want yet. I'll get there eventually, but for a novice programmer, Atom is good.

Vim is the best though, imo, not just for programming but for pretty much any text stuff at all.