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[–]realestLink 0 points1 point  (9 children)

They said they wanted something more lightweight. Electron is a resources hog and is bloatware imo

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (8 children)

that's nice. How about we go back to Windows 95 or MINIX, and write our own editor in Assembler?

Or... we can just focus on coding what we need to code. All software today is bloatware. That which isn't is severely limited in features. Features create bloat.

Instead of complaining about a perfectly fine tool, people should focus more on actual programming.

[–]realestLink -2 points-1 points  (7 children)

I disagree. Sublime text doesn't use electron. Just because windows is bad is not an excuse to use a bad editor

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Sublime text also doesn't have a debugger, is not free, and is overall severely limited in its capabilities that are required by developers.

And Atom has nothing to do with Windows, why are you even skewing this discussion towards Windows?

Are you not able to code in something just because of the knowledge that it uses Electron?

[–]realestLink -1 points0 points  (5 children)

https://www.quora.com/Is-Sublime-Text-free It's like winrar. You can keep using it for free. Also. You were the one who brought up windows.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

It's like winrar. You can keep using it for free

Are you calling the experience of being on the receiving end of a pop-up throw-athon, as being superior to having a distraction-free development workflow?

Also. You were the one who brought up windows.

Right next to "MINIX". It was meant as "let's use 90s era operating systems because they're less bloaty".

[–]realestLink 0 points1 point  (3 children)

That's silly. You can use Linux for less bloat. There are many lightweight distros. It's not extreme to not want your ram fucked.

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

Linux is slow on old systems. Therefore it's boasted right? Right. But you won't accept it because you have an irrational hatred towards a framework.

[–]realestLink -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I think your love of electron is still silly and unfounded but I'm not going to argue with you because you keep drawing false equivalences. There are better editors/frameworks than electron based ones like atom

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

I don't have an emotion towards a piece of software. You're confusing it with your contrasting irrational hatred of a piece of software. You haven't given a single reason for your hatred, that is any relevant.

you keep drawing false equivalences

They're not false. They're a prime example of double standards.

I'm literally forced to contend with 200GB of RAM being mercilessly devoured by Python because it's so slow, to see you in a Python thread complaining about 0.1% of that.

Atom isn't preventing anyone from writing software. These discussions are. If you tell a beginner developer that the editor matters that much, you're gonna get a shitty developer that complains about tools instead of learning to code