Slashdot Mirror
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
Incidentally, when I read the headline, I thought it meant that Intel's Atom processor had been given a GPU.
Same, the only reason I clicked was to see how terrible of an onboard GPU they crammed into atom.
Seems your information from 2014 is not relevant any more, supposedly they open sourced all of it in May this year:
http://blog.atom.io/2014/05/06...
New things are always on the horizon
I'm still wonder why I'd ever want to use Atom.
Sure, it has some nice things in it, but it's still nowhere even remotely close to other programmers' editors.
Nor does it seem to offer anything that could significantly improve on those editors or that would be in any way harder to implement on those editors.
What is so special about Atom and why are Github pushing it so much?
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
Well, Unix (or Unics. initially) was developed on a PDP-7, which was an 18-bit processor. However, 18-bit processors would typicaly pack 3 6-bit characters to a word. Teletypes, which were an early form of interface used a 5-bit code. Common VDU-style terminals used 7- or 8-bit codes. I'm not aware of any (western) devices that used more than 8 bits.
I thought it was Atom RSS, that by the way, is still at v1.0.
I'm sure it's better (I didn't use emacs before packages), but going from vanilla emacs to working IDE still takes a quite a bit of research and work.
Company or ac? Ido or Helm? Built-in CEDET, development version of CEDET (hope you don't do scheme development, 'cause semantic shits on it), or clang-based autocomplete? CEDET project management or projectile? Don't forget flymake - oops, that's outdated, now use flycheck, but wait, that's not compatible with...
Emacs is great, but for someone like OP who is used to "install xcode and run with it," roll-your-own probably isn't the way to go. That's why I mentioned spacemacs.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
Ever heard that saying, "Emacs is a great OS but it lacks a decent text editor?" Well, thanks to evil-mode, now it has one.
I haven't seen much argument about evil-mode vs vanilla emacs. I think the consensus is pretty much, "it's all emacs." Emacs users generally customize their keybindings anyway - evil-mode is just a bit more extreme than most.
As for me, I like vim. I instinctively use vi keys when editing. However, I need custom scripts for some of the work I do, and I hate vimscript. Emacs gives me an editor that uses vi keys but lets me do customizations in elisp. It also has some other kick ass features I've come to like (org-mode is amazing). I still use vim for quick editing and sysadmin type stuff, but I write code and documents in emacs.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
It's a text editor, built with web-based technologies and packaged as an app-specific browser that looks like a native desktop app, which offers a user experience similar to most desktop programmer's editors but with emacs-like extensibility (only in javascript rather than elisp).
Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.