Well, now that Atom has been replaced by VSCode, which is also an electron app, the original Atom devs, or at least some of them, are creating Zed. Zed's written in Rust and uses a lot less memory.

Of course it's not yet as mature and they're trying to earn money by integrating AI and selling that as a service. BUT the AI is voluntary and even if you do want to use it, you don't have to pay to use their AI (which comes with a free tier if you DO want to use it), you can literally run your own model in ollama.

It's not perfect, but I love how little RAM it uses compared to VSCode and (shudders) the Jetbrains suite (which I normally love, but hate the RAM and CPU usage, it can drive my computer pretty slow)

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 9 hours ago

still have the patch they sent for people who published packages. I made a theme no one but me used but still! Pre microsoft github was cool

[–] NickeeCoco@piefed.social 25 points 11 hours ago

It has become my favorite editor, even though I don't need or want the AI stuff. They do something that I do quite appreciate, that I wish other apps (looking at you, Firefox) would do:

In the AI section of the settings, the first thing is a toggle that turns off all AI features.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't Sublime Text come before Atom?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

it did, but this is about electron, which isn't relevant to sublime. sublime's plugins mechanism is a little different from atom, which is much more like emacs

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but the plugin ecosystem really was pioneered by sublime and then ported over everywhere. A big reason atom was so successful is the plugin and themes were compatible.

[–] outerspace@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

I thought sublime text used textmate plug-ins at first?

[–] foo@feddit.uk 10 points 11 hours ago

They also developed their own Rust UI library and open-sourced it.