There's nothing stopping you from disabling this and installing one of the many quality community git packages. We even list them at the bottom of the launch site! https://github.atom.io
Some things we're focused on for the next six months:
* Core Experience/Performance
* Git/GitHub integration
* Language integration: better auto-complete, syntax highlighting, and debugging
* Windows-specific features and fixes
I manage Atom at GitHub and I wanted to chime in here saying I agree! We're not waiting for hardware to fix this. My first PC was 386 running at 20 MHz. Modern hardware is insanely fast! Improving Atom's performance is positively a team priority. The overhaul of the display layer that shipped in Atom 1.9 represents a significant step down that path.
I'm the engineering manager lee-dohm mentioned and I just want to echo his sentiment.
We recognize this problem and are working hard to improve it! We're of course thrilled by how popular Atom is, but as you've seen, it's been a real challenge to keep up with the size of the community. The team is small, but growing!
In fact, if you're interested in getting paid to help us fix this, apply to join the team! Openings for engineers on the Atom team will be posted here later this week: https://github.com/about/jobs#positions
Well, sure. There are formulas and techniques for creativity and rebellion in the same way there are formulas and techniques for winning a 100 meter sprint. But formulas and techniques don't turn an overweight, middle-aged guy into a world class sprinter.
Hey guys. I'm the dev manager for Veracity. I thought I could answer a couple of questions.
On the problem it solves: stonemetal has it about right. Veracity wants to be a way for companies to take advantage of DVCS without giving up many things they need. The Apache license and file locks are a couple examples that exist today. We have plans for more. We're not trying to out-git git.
On documentation: yeah, it's awfully sparse right now. We're working on it. We didn't think the Q&A site would solve the problem, but we do hope it ameliorates it somewhat in the mean time. :)
I strongly disagree that "working a minimum wage job has no connection or relevant to adult life." The self-sufficiency I gained when working for minimum wage at 15 helped put me on the path toward "lucrative professional employment" years later.
The experience of being paid according to your actual value, particularly when you're young and virtually worthless, is an important lesson you don't find in academics or extracurriculars.
I couldn't disagree more. Doing the grungy work of getting a big project ship-ready doesn't automatically mean there's a death march underway. It means you're a team that's disciplined enough, grown-up enough, to focus on the good of the project, as opposed to what's fun.
There's no reason that kind of work can't also be rewarding. Running a marathon is hard work, not pure fun, yet people find the endeavor rewarding.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." T. Roosevelt
You want me to pay extra for the privilege of having junk mail delivered? I can't see this being a very popular option. Sorting through the junk to make sure I catch the rare piece of important mail is a chore. I would pay extra to opt out of all mass mailings, and have the occasional piece of actual mail delivered. They'd probably only have to open my mailbox 5-6 times a month. Win-win.