[omginternets]

Let me know when this distinction is anything other than pedantry.

It takes all of 200ms and a wee bit of inference to figure out that their usage of "text editor" is different from yours.

From the tone of some of these posts, you'd think downloading Atom and subsequently realizing it doesn't suit one's needs caused lasting psychological harm.

Semantics aside, Atom is good at what it does. For 99% of projects it's an excellent, flexible tool.

[konart]

> For 99% of projects it's an excellent, flexible tool.

Well, this is simply a bullshit, sorry. This is might be a point of view of someone who never worked on an enterprise project or something of a similar scale.

Atom is good at one thing - opening small js\ruby\python scripts and showing you them in a modern UI. That's it. Anything more than that - he just can't do it.

[flukus]

> From the tone of some of these posts, you'd think downloading Atom and subsequently realizing it doesn't suit one's needs caused lasting psychological harm.

No lasting harm, but I did invest quite a bit of time to discover that it doesn't suite my needs.

> It takes all of 200ms and a wee bit of inference to figure out that their usage of "text editor" is different from yours.

No it doesn't, it takes experience with the editor. 200ms of googling shows there are some log and tail plugins, which would lead me ot believe it was good at handling large files.