[kidh0]

I guess that people begin to talk about the dead of sublime text with the launch of github Atom. Since there are basically the same features and with a beautiful interface to manage the extensions, everyone started to look back to ST and ask: "Ok, what's your move now?".

I have almost nothing to complaint about ST, I've been using the version 3 regularly for a few months. Off course, I want new features (and a few bugfixes, damn you single quotes bug), but I'm pretty happy.

[platinumdragon]

Until Atom does something for other than Mac, it's just an experiment and not a real tool.

[archagon]

I've been a Windows user for about two decades, and I've never heard anyone complain about software being Windows-exclusive — it was just the norm. But now that the Mac's become a little more popular, I see lots of tech-savvy people suddenly getting offended whenever a cool new piece of software comes out for OSX first. It's really annoying.

[pritambaral]

> never heard anyone complain about software being Windows-exclusive

Really? I guess you never spent time outside of Windows-user circles. Understandable, since they're the majority. But I've been whining and have heard others groan about Windows-exclusivity precisely since I was introduced to Linux.

[CmonDev]

Linux people complain about Windows all the time.

[tonyedgecombe]

Linux people complain all the time.

[BigTuna]

People complain all the time.

[riquito]

> Until Atom does something for other than Mac, it's just an experiment and not a real tool.

Unless you're using Mac. There are very good editor/IDE that run on a single platform.

[Terretta]

Just like Final Cut or OmniFocus are not real tools?

[1stop]

Funny, Final Cut X isn't a real tool, it's sad that Adobe are trouncing apple at the moment in the video space, and OmniFocus is a toy piece of software... there are probably more users of Atom.io than Omnifocus ;)

I get your point, you don't have to be multiplatform, but your two examples aren't good ones.

[coldtea]

>Funny, Final Cut X isn't a real tool, it's sad that Adobe are trouncing apple at the moment in the video space

Perhaps you are 1-2 years behind in the news. What you refer was based on the FPCX release back in the day. Since then it added the missing features (multicam, library management and tons of other stuff), and has regained market share. Actually it has been one of the top sellers for Apple. Professional editors that bashed it, have changed their tune -- you can find several articles and posts to that effect.

The whole backslash were because FCP7 was discontinued and initial FCPX didn't have 100% parity. Plus, editors didn't know how development works (can't blame them), so couldn't understand that a newly developed engine, re-designed to be future-proof, will have dropped features and might lunch without 100% parity.

>and OmniFocus is a toy piece of software... there are probably more users of Atom.io than Omnifocus ;)

You seem to have a very bizarro notion of what's a "toy piece of software".

Actually Atom.io is as fringe as it gets. Most people have checked it out of curiosity and returned to their editors.

Omnifocus, OTOH, has been featured on the Mac Store, and has been on the top list of best selling apps.

[henryaj]

In what way is OmniFocus a 'toy'? It's a powerful GTD tool with iPhone and iPad clients, and a thriving beta testing community currently testing v2.

[Fomite]

Or Xcode.

[sergiotapia]

I know I switched because it does everything Sublime Text 2 does for me - and then more. I even created my own package and published it online because it was so intuitive to extend.

What's not to love?

[kidh0]

I've tried Atom when it was an alpha release and it was ok, lots of bugs (alpha release, it's all forgiven), but ok.

It seems to be slower than ST, but I didn't use it enough to see if it really is slower than ST in a all day work.

I read somewhere that there is a beta release now, I'll upgrade and give it a try again.

[mtford]

Its def slower. I do like atom, however I tend to end up doing a lot of heavy log crunching. Atom will stutter and crash whereas sublime breezes through anything I can throw at it.