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Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements (blog.atom.io)
yathosho writes with some good news for GitHub developers: GitHub's new Atom editor sees a first big update in version 1.1. Character measurement has been improved, fonts with ligatures and variable width fonts are now supported. The biggest new feature is probably live Markdown preview, matching the current theme. There's also a 1.2.0 beta available, for those who want to have a look into Atom's future.
Yeah, lame product that's not open source. Here are some the features they are touting for the latest release, see which ones of these make you want to pay for a closed-source editor:
* Reduced GC Pauses When Scrolling Editor
* Using Variable Width Fonts
* New Approach to Character Measurement
* Several Find and Replace Fixes
* Settings Have Nice Descriptions
They're not really selling me on it. Incidentally, when I read the headline, I thought it meant that Intel's Atom processor had been given a GPU.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I can't comment on Atom (or Xcode, for that matter).
I can comment on UNIX-based editors and IDEs, though.
There's Eclipse's C/C++ module. It runs fine on Linux.
Emacs might suit your needs as well, but getting it set up with all the bells and whistles of an IDE is a bit of a pain. There are projects that help with that, however, like spacemacs (defaults to vi keybindings, but supports emacs keybindings as well). I use emacs with a custom config, but I haven't done much C++ since I switched from vim. What I have done has worked OK, but I'm sure my config has room for improvement.
QT Creator is cross platform and supports C++. It can do non-QT projects just fine.
There's Anjuta and KDevelop as well, but I haven't used either of those in quite some time and have no idea what the status is. KDevelop used to be used quite a bit for KDE development, which is C++.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
wtf is atom?
A somewhat rudimentary slashvertised text editor that reports what you're doing back to Google.
GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner specifies, only "Atom core" code will be closed source, while "all the existing MIT-licensed repos under the Atom org will remain so forever." The reasons are purely commercial, as he notes: "Atom won't be closed source, but it won't be open source either. It will be somewhere in-between, making it easy for us to charge for Atom while still making the source available under a restrictive license so you can see how everything works."
Keep your wallets handy, peeps.
The whole was open-sourced in May 2014!
See http://developers.slashdot.org/story/14/05/07/1245259/github-open-sources-atom-their-text-editor-based-on-chromium or http://blog.atom.io/2014/05/06/atom-is-now-open-source.html