14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Atom first-hand: 6 endorse it, 4 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“On Linux Atom simply was the "better" choice for a long time.”
endorse · personal · herbst · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I kinda hated it right from the start, but it's been a while and I could never really put my finger on it.”
regret · personal · wink · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have always found it a pleasure to work in, but then admittedly I am probably using a small percentage of the features”
endorse · production · leavenotracks · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I like that Atom doesn't require nearly as much fiddling in order to get it to quiet down.”
endorse · personal · rimunroe · 2018-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A quick look at current usage: 7GB for Safari, 4GB for Atom, 1.5GB for Slack. My home machine with 16GB was fine.”
regret · personal · photojosh · 2017-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every time I try to switch to Atom, I run into this problem. The slight sluggishness gets increasingly annoying”
regret · personal · shadowfacts · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Atom (now Nuclide) for a year. It's reasonably good.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · potomushto · 2015-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't been using atom for those exact reasons. Definitely going to give it a shot again now.”
regret · personal · jdc0589 · 2015-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used atom every single day since it came out to write my daily notes in markdown”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · cgcardona · 2015-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using atom for several months now, and i've never had a file take 30 seconds to open..”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · Klathmon · 2015-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Atom since it launched. For the past several weeks it's been so bad, unstable and slow I switched to another editor. Now with version 0.209.0 Atom is back”
mixed · personal · city41 · 2015-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to use omnisharp with atom and frankly it was just rubbish.”
neutral · personal · shadowmint · 2017-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using proto-repl, parinfer, and lisp-paredit in Atom and like that combination.”
neutral · personal · thetophs · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?