[kingnight]

In my few reviews of the Atom DOM for creating a theme, the structure felt very tame (and I too have looked at CodeMirror/Brackets). I found it readable and straightforward. There's a bit to it, but eh, good enough to work through if I inspect elements etc.

Sublime sure is fast. This is fast too. I haven't put it through its paces in normal usage, but at least I have a fallback that I like.

Package hell is true for anything is it not? If you're saying Atom doesn't have N feature count that matches other editors, you could very well be right, but I have a feeling that will change. Also, I'm sure Atom will start ranking plugins at some point too.

[albiabia]

> I found it readable and straightforward. There's a bit to it, but eh, good enough to work through if I inspect elements etc.

I meant more from a performance perspective. It might not be hard to sift through to make a theme, but it seems like a lot of overhead for the core to continually process all that data.

> Package hell is true for anything is it not?

I guess so. Curation is always an option. But even just from a settings perspective, they are just all listed alphabetically in the prefs panel. I'm not sure what the solution is, but a stock install already has too many packages to manage.