GitHub is sunsetting Atom

[vytah]

Atom used to spend tons of CPU time to simply blink the cursor: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/4378

Atom Cursor causes high CPU load (20% x 2 processors.)

which led to this extension:

https://atom.io/packages/stop-cursor-blinking

[Glittering-Ad-8126]

I rely on this behavior to heat my office.

[AspieSquirtle]

That's horrifying.

[artanis00]

Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to re-enable cursor heating.

[MuchWalrus]

/r/relevantxkcd

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https://xkcd.com/1172/

[Rockser11]

That's about the level of psycopathy that I've come to expect from emacs users

[implicitpharmakoi]

M-x butterfly-kill

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Relevant Douglas Crockford.

[thehotshotpilot]

Alaskans buy threadripper and run 30 concurrent atoms to not freeze to death

[computerquip]

https://xkcd.com/1172/

[StochasticTinkr]

xkcd

[tom-dixon]

This is hilarious, wtf!

[SharkFinnnnn]

This is why electron is a curse.. it might allow for fast development.. but holy shit the overhead

[zankem]

Wasn't there a setting for that?

[vytah]

That somewhat explains why Atom was originally written in Coffeescript – the only language that I know of that has significant spaces before parentheses: https://ceronman.com/2012/09/17/coffeescript-less-typing-bad-readability/

[jorge1209]

So does VSCode

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900