Just downloaded Atom. I think I like it...

I left notepad++ for atom... Loved it

I left atom a few weeks later for VS Code: much cleaner, faster. Most things are settings rather than downloadable extensions.

@AlgoRythm hm... I haven't checked out VS Code yet. Maybe I will...

@itsnameless I've been fucking about with vim as well. It's intimidating.

@MissDirection It's quite wonderful, but of course, I recommend getting to know Atom as well. Always good to know more than one tool.

They both start up fairly fucking slow. That's an electron thing.

@MissDirection VS Code is really great! 😉

Or a real IDE, like those from JetBrains.

@AlgoRythm atom is quick on my new machine, but it's a beast - 32gb ram, i7, 512 GB SSD. I need to post that machine soon. Keep forgetting.

@CoffeeAndHate I have pycharm.

@MissDirection Ah, I have most programs on a terabyte HDD so that contributes to startup time.

@MissDirection And isn't it great? What else can you wish for?

I can't open atom anymore and i don't know why... I must reinstall it... Ufff

@AlgoRythm If you find VS Code fast, try Sublime! I've never experienced any slowdown, ever.

(Okay, I did once when I tried to edit every period in War and Peace at once. But. That's just insane anyway.)

@Ashkin I've wanted to for a while but I'm working in Lua, c and Java a lot recently and I find myself using code::blocks and nano (hate away - it's easy) more than anything

@AlexDeLarge @runfrodorun @MissDirection
I'm continually trying to improve my vim-fu, but for actual work, I always end up using Sublime again.

Try out the Atom IDE packages. They're really awesome. I wanted to use VS Code more because it seemed better but not anymore. Atom IDE is all I need.

@runfrodorun Can you set up stuff like ESLint and Flow in vim? Those are quite useful tools if you work with JS.

Also, EMACS? Dafuq?

@AlgoRythm pretty much what I did :D

I really want to love atom but it's the first text editor that makes me hear my CPU fan... Feels bad

The fact that you can pretty much turn it into an IDE in a matter of minutes is pretty fucking attractive, atom gets me hot.

Left atom for VS code, cz atom takes hell lot of time to startup.

I was the same when I switched from Sublime Text to Atom. Then I switched to VS Code and don't plan on going back. It's faster and nicer to use. Even the packages I had to install with Atom were preinstalled with VS Code. I highly recommend it.

you can try visual studio code or brackets too when you are bored to use atom

@mykro yep, want from atom to vs code, never looked back

@CoffeeAndHate yeah pycharm is pretty nice.

Woo atom club!

@AlgoRythm notepad++ has auto session storage and it doesn't ask me to save files when I close it and keeps them in latest state when I reopen.
Is it possible with Atom ? I tried looking for it but ended up switching back to Notepad++

I switched to VS Code from Atom for the speed (I don't have a particularly powerful machine) and it's great. Two things bug me about VS Code, though:

1. I can't seem to have more than one working project in my Explorer;
2. Markdown syntax support is a bit patchy in VS Code themes unless you're using a dedicated Markdown theme.

Of the two, #1 is a bigger issue for me. I often want to refer to another project's notes while working on something. Being able to load multiple project folders in the same window makes that so much easier.

@AlgoRythm I just can't get myself to like VS code. I've tried...

Guys when do you say it's fast do you mean it opens in less time? How many times do you open it everyday to work on a project? At the end of working day should be more important which editor/ide makes you more productive instead how many seconds you save opening it :)

@him- Atom does that I believe

@Haxk20 Same here. Running it on a HP Stream 14, Celeron 3060: 2 threads; slow to start, but no performance issues afterwards whatsoever

As much as I liked the tools in atom and vscode, they're too slow. Sublime is here to stay.

Vim is probably great though, I'll try it one day

@speedForce still i don't getthis slowness problem... if you have to work on a project, at the end of the day do you prefer be more productive with a better tool that take 10 seconds to start or do you prefer to save some seconds with a lighter tool? If you ha e to make small changes in lot of different projects is different, the second point is more important... IMHO

Well, sublime has good enough tools for me right now, idk why but atom made me feel drowsy. With sublime I feel some energy, makes me more productive. At the end of the day, to each their own

It stopped working on my Mac for a while when High Sierra was in beta. Just added it back this week and can say I think I like it more than Sublime...

@MissDirection I also atom for long time but after checking vsCode I never opened atom again. Actually vsCode is made using electron framework ( atom core)