I know there is an exorbitant amount of threads, typically from the same IP,
that have given their opinions. I have some to share and also am curious to hear
from others.
I first used Atom when it came out and hated it immediately. I waited a few
months and no change. Recently, I believe just a few months ago, I gave it
another shot. I have to say I am shocked at the progress made.
A bit about me being my first post:
- I program in many languages https://www.codeeval.com/profile/jvardanian/
- I work as a Web Developer for the State of Texas (Programmer IV)
- I am predominantly a web developer and as many have noted Atom tends to cater
to this demographic. - I do not consider myself a âSublime Fanboyâ but frequently make jokes in my
office such as âSublime Text is the cure to Diabetesâ, or âYour code is nice
but the only thing its missing is Sublime Textâ
I am at the point where I use both of them and have them mounted on my dock
(OS X) right next to each other.
I donât think Iâll ever stop using Sublime if not only because of itâs ability
to load large files that other editors (BBEdit, Notepad++, Brackets, and so on)
simply cannot handle. Sublime handles it like a champ and if it does crash
its maybe 1/100 times on files over 50MB
It seems now to me that as long as you arenât handling a full fledged project
that Atom has a number of advantages. Frankly when I handle a full fledged
project I use PhpStorm even if not coding in PHP. They might as well take PHP
out of itâs name as is. Anyway:
Is Atom still slow as hell for most? (not talking about initial opening). I have
a 1TB ssd and 16GB of RAM so the speed increase cannot be fully on the part of
Atom.
Iâve had mixed results with the CTags plug-in in Sublime. It cannot find
declarations of variables but does fine with methods. I know I can toss an @
in the goto anywhere feature but that simply isnât the same. Any guidance
on this would be appreciated.
I do not believe that Atom is only good for âWeb Developmentâ, as I regularly
write Python, Ruby, and C using it. I can debug and run a program in C
all inside of Atom. I can toss a terminal next to sublime text and accomplish
the same exact thing and often do. Wondering if there is a more elegant solution
already in place or in the works.
Project management Sublime Text is leaps and bounds above still IMO.
I will think of more things later as I would like this thread to be thought of
as more of a constructive way to actually hit on points vs merely pushing oneâs
preference onto others. I will myself take a more active role in contributing
to the Sublime Text community as this editor is my swiss army knife that I never
wish to stop using. Hell I even wrote this post in Sublime TextâŚ
Feedback on plug-ins to accomplish some of the listed above is much appreciated.
Thanks all!
-John