You have to understand that Atom is repurposed webkit, with all the flaws and benefits that come with a browser engine.
I liked it, the dealbreaker (to say the least) for me was broken support for non-US keyboard layouts, it can't differentiate alt from alt-gr making it impossible for me to type most brackets and pipe.
This has been an open issue for months, with a couple of community contributed "solutions" that don't quite cut it.
Considering they are pretty much ignoring the problem I won't be checking out Atom again soon.
I just downloaded the latest version (on ubuntu 14.04 with Atom 0.177.0) and was able to type "|" and "@" and "\" no without problems on a Spanish-layout keyboard.
Edit: in latest release notes it says "Atom now runs on top of Chrome 40 and io.js".
Hopefully Github will come to their senses and instead start using Skia directly, like ST3 does. Proper 2D library bindings would be super valuable to any community.
I liked it, the dealbreaker (to say the least) for me was broken support for non-US keyboard layouts, it can't differentiate alt from alt-gr making it impossible for me to type most brackets and pipe.
This has been an open issue for months, with a couple of community contributed "solutions" that don't quite cut it. Considering they are pretty much ignoring the problem I won't be checking out Atom again soon.