Has just hit 1.0 - anyone used it?
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Atom is a text editor that’s modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.[/quote]
I’ve tried a few different times, most recently a couple months ago. Did not like.
I found it buggy and unresponsive, even considering that it was still in beta.
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I tried it before they switched away from React: Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React by nathansobo · Pull Request #5624 · atom/atom · GitHub and they did for good reason. I like that they’ve written it in CoffeeScript. I wouldn’t mind giving it another whirl.
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I tried it back when it was in “closed beta” or whatever. It was a nice new look and break from my Sublime Text, however it was (and still is) so slow.
I tried going back a few months ago. I ran with it for a couple of weeks, but ultimately decided against it and went back to my beloved Sublime Text 
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Atom user here. Switched from Sublime a few months ago. It still has some issues, but it is improving 
I use these packages and find them pretty useful: (in fact I have done some work for the rspec package)
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Right now I am using Atom 1.0. While comparing to Sublime text, Atom’s performance needs to be improved.
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I won’t try it until I got a Portable version on Windows
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I’m using it at home. Very happy with it. I like the idea that it’s completely free and open. Also, I like that it’s quite easy to write your own package (recently I’ve made one). Now it’s not laggy as was before. For me, it’s not laggy at all.
Although I like it, at the job my main instrument is RubyMine.
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RubyMine 
BTW what packages / addons you guys recommend?
I want to try it on OSX first (since I don’t it to be portable on OSX)
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Packages for Atom? I think you should just try to use the editor and find something that suits for you. I mean… It’s an editor. You shouldn’t create an IDE from it.
My package list:
- highlight-line
- highlight-selected
- trailing-spaces
- expand-selection
- minimap
- minimap-git-diff
- minimap-find-and-replace
- cucumber
- custom-title
- pigments
- slash-closer
- atom-dash (OS X only)
- git-diff-details
- white-cursor
- set-syntax
- atom-bootstrap3
- rails-snippets
- script
- tab-control
- toggle-quotes
- tab-close-double-click
- file-icons
- close-on-left (OS X only). Has a conflict with file-icons
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Thanks man!
I feel more comfortable already!
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Currently using RubyMine.
But I like Atom and use it once in awhile.
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Perhaps the thing I missed the most while switching from Sublime to Atom was the ability to switch between Ruby source code and test files with a single keystroke. That’s why I published ‘ruby-test-switcher’, inspired by the awesome ST2 Ruby Tests plugin. Check it out @ ruby-test-switcher. Happy hacking! 
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I tried it so many time. It seems cool, at least cooler than sublime but still I use Emacs it much easier to enhance and faster to use.
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What does Atom offer that Vim doesn’t?
The thing I love most about Vim is the extremely efficient use of space - I don’t think I could live without split windows/panes now.
Ahem; 
Alpine 
(a.k.a. pico/nano). Zero learning curve. Vim and Emacs don’t offer that. And Atom is just bigger.
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What’s alpine? Nano has zero learning curve but I don’t know any devs who’d use it 
Alpine is where you get pico. It was odd that they packaged the editor with the command line email client Alpine. nano is a pico clone.
I thought you knew me? GitHub - danielpclark/heroku-nano: Add pico (nano) text editor to the bash console on Heroku. NOTE: Compile the src directory, copy nano from there to ~/bin
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I’ve actually been using Atom for a month now. Can’t explain why, but since they fixed most of the really bad perf issues, its actually been pleasant to use.
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I use it a lot as my quick and dirty editor - especially when I am outside of a ruby environment and want something a little more powerful than a simple text editor.
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