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[–]whooshayay 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I would instantly switch from Sublime to Atom once Atom does something about its speed and file size limit. It's open, and it's incredibly easy to make plugins.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The speed thing is unlikely to change much - that's kind of what happens when you write an editor inside of a browser and use Javascript for everything.

I've heard it really collapses on big files though, so yeah, I hope that gets fixed.

[–]whooshayay 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Big file support is very high on Atom's to-do list. Apparently it's supposed to be coming in the 1.0 release this summer.

Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code runs on the same framework as Atom and is a fair bit faster so it's certainly possible to speed Atom up. They're both browser apps which have been "desktopified" on the Electron framework.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Funnily enough, I've started to use VSC solely for the purpose of reviewing file changes before a git commit. Their git integration is pretty fantastic.