So it's light table without Chris Granger, for better or worse..
LightTable has its own philosophy: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/ Sounds pretty different from Atom's modules... I guess.
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Re: Atom
#22A competitor to Sublime is a great thing. Sublime is great and I love it, but we need more teams like Github building editors that make sense. Thanks Github!
It's called vim.
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#23The more I see new editors floating around, the more I'm sticking to VIm. I am getting old, or it's a just a survival instinct.
On the other hand, the more the better, but we have already too many editors around.
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#24No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?
I'm certainly getting that feeling.
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#25No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?
No, just normal developer monoculturalism. Same as showing only Mac screenshots that is common, or showing your website inside a Macbook, etc.
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#26No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?
It's built on node-webkit and chromium, which technically works on Windows, OSX and Linux. Do you seriously think they would make an OSX only editor when there's already so many that work on all platforms?
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#27As was speculated in the other thread the beta looks like it will be closed, there's a "request and invite" form on the page. Others noted that the source mentioned "free during beta", I certainly hope that's not the case and it's truly FOSS. Sublime Text development has slowed significantly recently and the community can't continue to drive it since it's closed. Funnily enough, Sublime Text was born out of Textmate…
If you want an open-source text editor based on Node.js, Light Table might interest you.
(Light Table itself is written in ClojureScript, which is a bit idiosyncratic, but it's hardly worse than Elisp, and anyway you can write plugins in normal JavaScript.)
Re: Atom
#28The blog post: http://blog.atom.io/2014/02/26/introducing-atom.html
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#29Does it have emacs emulation?
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#30Can I use it online? That would be the killer feature for me, being able to code on anyone's computer in a second. Currently it's basically the only thing stopping me from being able to pick up anyone's computer and use it as I use my own.
I believe that's the point -- it's web based.