![]() You can definitely see the limits of Sublime’s file finder here as it struggles and barely keeps up. The main GIT repo that I work in on a daily basis is almost 8GB with thousands upon thousands of files. Of course, there are limits to how performant even Sublime can be. No matter how you shake it, Sublime is the only native application of the bunch and it’s the fastest. Little details like icons, and subtle animations leave a pleasant feel without getting in the way. All three feel polished and cared for and are a pleasure to use. Developers of all three editors clearly agree with me as they have put in a great deal of effort into the look and feel. I think it’s extremely important that the application I stare at 10-12 hours a day doesn’t hurt my eyes. Once you are in the dashboard, you can clone existing project, upload your files or create a new one using any available template. You can sign in into the app using your GitHub, BitBucket or a local account. Hosted Cloud 9 IDE requires a bit more time to get going. Both can also be installed on Windows and Linux. Installing Sublime and Atom on OSX is a matter of downloading a package and running the app from it. To make this a little bit more structured, lets break it down into the following categories: I’ve used all three editors on a MacBook Pro retina with 16GB of RAM. Cloud 9 IDE was used to edit my open source projects hosted on GitHub. I have used Atom and Sublime on a pretty big repository nearing almost 8GB in size. I’ve spent a week using both Atom and Cloud 9 IDE to get a sense for what they are capable of. Sublime is my editor of choice that I use fulltime. If you want to have more than one private projects it’s just $20 per month. You don’t need to install anything locally at all, everything runs in the cloud.Ĭloud 9 IDE is a hosted service and it’s free for open source projects. If you have a $200 ChromeBook and an internet connection, guess what, you could be easily developing pretty heavy weight web applications, running database and web servers, have full linux console and so on. The use case for Cloud 9 IDE is pretty interesting. It shines in some places, completely blows your mind in other places and is pretty lackluster to the point of frustration elsewhere. It runs straight out of the browser and is a bag full of mixed emotions. Cloud 9 IDEĬloud 9 IDE is a different beast all together. ![]() In this lies its power and weakness.Ītom currently is free and open source, written primarily in CoffeeScript and also has a pretty vibrant plugin community. Unlike Sublime however, Atom is a web application wrapped in a desktop shell and runs inside a WebKit instance. The future of that strategy was pretty unclear and soon enough the whole thing became open sourced.Ītom in my opinion is an attempt to rebuild Sublime and so essentially it is a feature for feature clone. It appeared out of the blue in early 2013 and at first was a partially closed source application with the core being closed and all the little bits were opened. ![]() ![]() AtomĪtom is the new kid on the block and is being spearheaded by GitHub. It is extensible via Python plugins of which there are plenty these days to satisfy all your editing habits. A license will run you $70 per user for unlimited installations and usages. It is commercial closed-source native application available for OSX, Windows, and Linux. Sublime Text is one of the most popular editors today and is a very strong contender for power Vim users to check out. In this post I’m going to take a quick look at three editors: Sublime Text, Atom, and Cloud 9 IDE. Every new editor that I encounter these days I evaluate based on Vim key support first, everything else second. The latter has been the biggest and most rewarding to learn and use. Over the years I’ve used everything from Notepad++ and Vim to Delphi and TextMate. I spend hours perfecting my shortcuts, configurations, and plugins-perhaps way too much time actually. I’ve had a pleasure of watching editors evolve and grow over the past few years and have developed a great appreciation for the current state of affairs. Picking the right editor has always been kind of a big deal for me. TL DR Sublime is awesome, Atom has potential and Cloud 9 is downright impressive.
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