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Atom is great for simple HTML coding. It's fast, has intuitive shortcuts and several options. I particularly love the "convert spaces to tabs" function that I haven't seen in other editors. I'm not sure how it would fair in more serious web development today, if there are plugins for live updates of the page you are working on... But the problem is that it has been discontinued so you know there are no new features or fixes coming through. Incentivized
Legacy applications already on VFP are a good candidate. If you plan to move to iOS and Android apps, VFP is not for you. Also, in future access to VFP programmers may be limited. You could use VFP as a powerful database tool. I know of many programmers who love to exploit the features of VFP to create easy to use applications.
Atom is highly customizable and allows for various themes and extensions that can make your code easier to read.Atom has many code hinting features that allow users to write faster and integrate with services likeLINT that can clean up your code once your done to meet your internal teams style choices.It's very fast and manages projects well - Accessing other files within a related folder(s) is very easy and intuitive.It's free!Incentivized
Treat data from filesReportingIncentivized
There should be a better user tips manual page to learn keyboard shortcutsIt would also be beneficial if mathematical and data analytic tools were addedit has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on itSometimes, atom closed suddenly and do not open againIt still lacks better options with the previews even though there are already some by users adding pluginsIt doesn't have self-correct features for lint errors, unlike IntelliJIncentivized
Microsoft stopped selling this and stopped supporting it in 2014. It still works on Windows 10, but if you have a problem, you are on your own.The look and feel of screens and displayed text is getting a little dated.It's really designed for desktop/server environments rather than the cloud.Incentivized
Well Atom is open source so the re-new is a no brainer. The only way I would stop using Atom is if the developers somehow made it not function well. Or, if the project got forked to a commercial version or something. Or, there could be the case that development stops or that it was not updated on this or that platform Incentivized
I give Atom a 9 because it is one of the most modern text editors built with JavaScript intentionally to allow the editor to be changed and modified with custom functionality that a team may need. I think I would otherwise give atom an 8 due to support, but it gets a 9/10 because of the extensibility/plugin capability.Incentivized
There are several easy to use and powerful features of VFP that programmers like.
Atom has an active forum and a Slack group where you can ask technical questions. Occasionally, the authors will pop in to answer a few questions here and there, but most of the time, its other helpful users who will assist you. Though they aren't the most knowledgeable, they are at least timely.As for plugin support, that differs with each plugin, but as I mentioned before, many plugins are no longer maintained.Incentivized
Although MS has discontinued support of VFP there is a good community of programmers that are available for help. In fact we have several programmers at Apptread that are skilled not only in VFP but also .NET so that if there is a need to migrate some parts of applications to .NET , it is easy for us to do that.
Just download and install Incentivized
Our company likes to keep things open, and we don't want to prevent developers from customizing their environment the way they want. Atom seemed to be a lot more open than our existing tools and has good community support on pretty much any programming language. This can create some confusion since adding too many extensions or customizing can make the tool slower than it is supposed to be.Incentivized
We are only using FoxPro because it is the only way to add custom plugins into the software we use to manage our stock. FoxPro is a semi-oriented object language and should clearly not be compared with recent technologies.Incentivized
The tool we use when we need quick fixes. Allows fast, reliable scripting to fix urgent problems in our applications.When applications grow from 5-10 files to 100's, they need to be migrated to a heavier-duty IDE. This can be cumbersome and quite annoying, but is necessary to maintain code integrity on such a large scale (since it cannot be done with the limited default toolset of Atom).Incentivized
Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services.Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional.A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers.Incentivized