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GitHub announced today that the editor it has been working on is now open source.
Today, we're excited to announce that we are open-sourcing Atom under the MIT License. We see Atom as a perfect complement to GitHub's primary mission of building better software by working together. Atom is a long-term investment, and GitHub will continue to support its development with a dedicated team going forward. But we also know that we can't achieve our vision for Atom alone. As Emacs and Vim have demonstrated over the past three decades, if you want to build a thriving, long-lasting community around a text editor, it has to be open source.
I have been using the Atom beta as my primary editor for the past few weeks and have been very happy with it.
It is currently only available for the mac, but it is based on Chromium and Node, and "Windows and Linux releases are on the roadmap."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @06:53PM
Let me lead off with this https://xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com]
Having not used this editor before. How is it better/worse/feature wise to the hundreds of other text editors I can get? Of which a non insignificant portion are open source. Is it worth a try? Does anyone have any exp with it?
(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:07PM
It's better because it still only works on a Mac.
What else could you ask for?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:14PM
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by useless on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:14PM
Depends. Do you think having Google Analytics build into a text editor is a good or bad thing?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:28PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2) by forsythe on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:30PM
There's no need to resort to XKCD. This exact scenario is a well-accepted koan.
This version copy-and-pasted from here [neugierig.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @10:17PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by xlefay on Thursday May 08 2014, @01:45AM
Actually, the OP was wrong, it is in fact available for Linux and Windows they just don't advertise it on the atom's website.
Source: Atom's readme file: https://github.com/atom/atom#linux-requirements [github.com] & myself, since I've been testing it too.
(Score: 1) by RobotLove on Wednesday May 07 2014, @06:57PM
In my job I alternate between coding Java class files and looking at 500,000 line log files. Hard to find something that does both well. No idea if Atom will do the first, but I'm pretty damn sure it won't do the second.
Also, Sublime Text's fuzzy auto-complete reigns supreme.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:25PM
Files larger then 2MB aren't allowed.
BTW, this "text editor" is 67MB - so it must be *a lot* better than the others, right?
(Score: 2) by Sir Finkus on Wednesday May 07 2014, @08:52PM
I've found it to be pretty slow opening even modestly sized files. I really like how you can cd to a folder and type "atom" and it will automatically load everything in that folder in the sidebar. The diff visualization is also pretty neat.
That all said, sublime text still wins it for me. It's opened in less than a second for everything I've thrown at it, the fuzzy search is awesome, and I like the vim bindings. My only real complaint is that you need to edit text files to change stupid stuff like the font, but that's not really a big deal.
Atom does have promise I think, it just isn't quite there yet.
Join our Folding@Home team! [stanford.edu]
(Score: 1) by kwerle on Wednesday May 07 2014, @09:01PM
Atom is primarily a code editor. I would not expect it to perform well on large files.
Frankly, I'd probably invest in looking for a good log parsing program if I spent that much time looking at logs...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:31PM
What the hell was wrong with Geany?
(Score: 2) by forsythe on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:46PM
Geany's webpage isn't on a domain that ends in '.io'.
(Score: 1) by twistedcubic on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:42PM
I just downloaded this on a Macbook retina 13". I give the default color scheme an A+. The dark theme is perfect for someone like myself with eye strain/swelling. I wrote a quick "hello world" in C, checked the memory usage in the activity monitor ("top" for Macs), and saw the following.
Atom Helper: 105MB
Safari: 78 MB
This is with six tabs open in Safari. This is high, but as long as this doesn't grow exponentially with usage, it should be OK. I'll grade this a C. :)
Lastly, it doesn't work like Vim, so tat's an F. Final grade D-.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:47PM
In what world do you ever see something like 78 meg used in Safari? You are aware that each tab is reported as "Safari Web Content"? I just loaded up Safari myself (15" Macbook Pro) and with six random pages loaded (news, forums), I've got 151.2 for Safari, then 21.1 in Safari Networking, then about 240 spread across six Safari Web Content processes.
If you're going to criticise something at least make sure you don't look like a dribbling fanboy in the process.
(Score: 1) by twistedcubic on Wednesday May 07 2014, @08:09PM
The point is that Atom uses a lot of memory. Dribbling fanboy for Safari??? Now that's an insult.
(Score: 2, Informative) by kwerle on Wednesday May 07 2014, @09:30PM
You might want to check out the vim-mode package - which admits it has a long ways to go...
https://atom.io/packages/vim-mode [atom.io]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07 2014, @07:59PM
lol
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 08 2014, @03:58AM
Direct link (If you want it).
https://atom.io/download/mac [atom.io]
And that's a compressed file! If it's all source code it's around 500MB uncompressed!!! o_O;;;
Ages ago for laughs I coded an ultra bare-bones 'full screen' text editor in ms-dos assembly language...it was under 700 bytes! I was inspired to do it by PC Magazine's TED full-screen text editor which was 2900+ bytes long.
Had to decapitalize some words to get it past the lameness filter.
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