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		drvortex on June 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atom 1.0 I am loathe to install something like Atom with a 4MB limit on file size and 80 MB install size when Sublime Text does the same or better in a 8 MB install package with no limits.

zevyoura on June 25, 2015 [–]

Do you really do your work on a computer where an 80MB install is a problem? No argument on the file size limit.

drvortex on June 28, 2015 | [–]

Yes, I program on a netbook. I find the resource limitations useful in writing programs that are very efficient. I do mostly scientific programming, so if it runs on my netbook, it flies on my cluster.

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