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i have been using it for 3-4 months now and its getting there each month. Sometimes the plugins fail but this could be because of the rapid development cycle of atom. On the positive side, its a good text editor, easy interaction, plugin install super easy. A downside is that its not easy on your ram though. Consumes more than what vim would do. But overall, if you need a modern editor, this is the way forward.


How well does it support other languages other than JavaScript? Will I be able to do mobile Android and iOS development at some point, or Haskell, Go, etc?


I regularly work on Go projects with Atom using the go-plus[0] plugin

[0] - https://atom.io/packages/go-plus


Looks like it's not working just now:

    Searching packages failed: atom.io is temporarily unavailable, please try again later.
Also, install Mercurial before the go-plus package. See "Missing Tools" near the bottom of the page.


Facebook has built a set of plugins for doing just this. It basically turns Atom into an IDE. Haven't tried it myself but from the videos it looks nice.

http://nuclide.io


i use it for some c development markdown, python, etc.


s/modern/shiny new/g


What does modern editor mean? flimsy plugin system and multiple cursors come to mind.




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