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by aninhumer 3279 days ago
Eh, I feel like the web platform as allowed it to be massively extensible in a much more convenient and familiar way than a lot of other editors. I tried it for a little bit and it felt like the "Sublime Text but more open and flexible" that I really wanted. If they can work out a way to improve performance without sacrificing too much of that, it would be great.
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pjmlp 3279 days ago
As an Emacs fan, not really.
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foldr 3279 days ago
This isn't about emacs. Atom is for people who want an alternative to Emacs. If you only need to know JS and CSS to write an extension, that vastly increases the pool of people who are able to write extensions.
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LeoNatan25 3278 days ago
That "pool" of people "able" to "write" "extensions" is exactly the people you don't want touching your text editor, or any software for that matter. Anyone that has a psychological barrier to take a look at a language that they are not familiar with, let alone a framework or an ecosystem, is not someone that I want being anywhere near the software I use. In an ideal world, I wouldn't want them to be anywhere near the web I visit either, but that is a lost cause.
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foldr 3278 days ago
The quality of Atom extensions is good, so that's clearly not true.

Also, you are going nuts with the scare quotes. I don't even see what point you are trying to make with those.

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LeoNatan25 3278 days ago
> The quality of Atom extensions is good

That's debatable for the vast majority of them. "Clearly" is a strong word here. And certainly, regardless of how "good" they are, almost none are worth the hit in performance in the most basic of tasks for me.

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foldr 3278 days ago
Emacs Lisp is much less performant than a modern Javascript implementation. I don't see how choosing JS as the extension language raises any serious performance issues.

Extension quality is a bit subjective, sure. But if you are going to claim that emacs extensions are of higher quality because they're written in a more obscure language, then you should give evidence. That is not my experience.

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Veedrac 3278 days ago
The difference is that Atom lets you build UIs; Emacs lets you mash together some text and images.
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pjmlp 3277 days ago
I though that was the purpose of a text editor, go figure!
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