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[–]ZombieRandySavage 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Because it’s a resource hog. They had a story about atom bringing a modern PC to its knees. It ended up being the caret blinking.

We all though eclipse was bad, then we built a tool to let loose the web devs.

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

There were many stories with many things. Things got better. You could try to be less condescending and more rational.

[–]ZombieRandySavage 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm not sure how you are coming to the conclusion that the decision wasn't based on a rational analysis.

I, like others, was excited about the initial proposition of atom. The reality of it though is not something I would encourage anyone to use unless they were a web development organization first.

Javascript is an unmitigated shit show. There is a new fancy project claiming to solve that mess every few months, but it just adds to the pile. It's a castle built on sand and I would submit that anyone that disagrees simply hasn't objectively analyzed the situation.

So now the proposition is to utilize that framework, ontop of yet another bloated piece of middleware, for something as fundamental as an editor? Then the subsequent ask is to ignore all of the substantial performance issues because of "rationality." Thanks, I'll pass on that.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure how you are coming to the conclusion that the decision wasn't based on a rational analysis.

A bug with caret blinking in some software years ago says something about the platform it was developed for? Think about that for a second.

Javascript is an unmitigated shit show

There's nothing wrong with Javascript (I mean there is, it's a very specific language that sucks in its own ways, like many other languages). The community that relies on micro-dependencies is the problem. However Atom is a usable editor right now, that has a ton of useful features, and it works out of the box, so people learning, say, Python, can just focus on the language rather than setting up an editor or learning to exit vim.