Anyone else feels that Atom editor is buggy as hell?

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Atom uses an insane amount of resources. It’s probably buggy due to a lack of computing resources on your machine. I imagine a future where Atom needs more and more resources not less. I personally ended up switching to Sublime Text Editor as it works better for me, is lightweight and uses less battery.

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I’d say switch to vscode, you’ll love the vscode debugger. (btw i’m not a fanboy, funnily enough i use atom still to type up a journal, its lower memory)

That and source control for commits git diffs is pretty well integrated.

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Yeah. I use it on win 7, and it isn’t buggy for me. Again, I haven’t used it much.

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I stopped using Atom because of the performance issues. It’s a hybrid desktop application, so its built with JS/HTML/CSS. That’s why its not very good.

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Is that not how VSCode was made? @tear727

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Year old topic brought back from the dead.

VSCode does work similar to atom but I find that Atom slows down ALOT once you install enough plugins. Never had that problem with VSCode.

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When I had it, it was never buggy but I did notice it wasted too much RAM and the CPU usage was huge at times. So I decided to give VSCode a try and so far so good.

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Ah no way. I guess it is. Well, they have no excuse then! @iamknox

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Atom is a great editor, if you have 64 core cpu and 128 gb of RAM, all jokes aside it’s resource intensive and you need a powerful machine to run it, I recommend VS Code or Sublime. VS Code is better in my opinion.

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Umm, they have exactly the same underlying platform, the two are just optimised for different things (Atom for ease of plugin creation/editor customisation, VSCode for things MS wants & speed)

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Is Atom also written in Typescript? If not VS Code and Atom are not exactly the same.

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Webstorm is my favorite. If you’re a student, you can get it free with your student email

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What I meant was that neither are standalone apps, they’re both both built on top of exactly the same platform (Electron), allowing apps to be built using HTML/CSS/JS.

(Plus surely Typescript is just a bolted on gradual typing system, it’s not a different language - akin to saying app a is written in Elixir but app b is written in Typespecs/Dialyzer (just that JS doesn’t support macros, so you have this complex app/lib + build step instead))

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Atom is awesome, and I love its open source spirit, but right now I think VS Code is way more performant.