[jszymborski]

Suggesting to screw a nail or hammer a screw will lead to similarly unsatisfactory results.

Atom is for writing code, not viewing logs. We have tail and syslog and a thousand other tools for that.

[Analemma_]

That's sort of true, but OTOH vi, Emacs and even Notepad++ can write code and view huge log files. People who are holding out on Atom because of speed maybe don't want two tools where one will do, which is perfectly reasonable.

[Touche]

Large files bring vim to it's knees if you forget to turn off syntax highlighting first. I've done it many times debugging bundled JavaScript before.

[JorgeGT]

I thought it was a text editor. It is rather curious that it cannot open large text files.

[sooheon]

Even emacs completely shits the bed when it comes to long lines. I love it, but there are things about every tool that requires tradeoffs. I'm willing to deal with bad performance due to decades old technological decisions, in order to gain (to me) unparalleled editing and customization.

[ChrisClark]

No, it's a code editor.

[tree_of_item]

No, it's a text editor, like it says on https://atom.io/. It doesn't do much for "code" besides draw keywords in pretty colors.

[ssully]

Not according to their website https://atom.io

"Atom - A hackable text editor"