What's the difference between this and Emacs?
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Re: Atom
#32This might make developing on chromebook viable.
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#33So it's light table without Chris Granger, for better or worse..
Light Table is a great project, but it's all in closurescript -.- This is a big obstacle to people wanting to edit/customize/write their own plugins
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#34The editor looks good. I'm more excited about the fact that this is a good looking desktop app, built using, what are normally considered, web technologies.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
As the designer who worked on the main interface for Sublime Text 2, it does irk me that it looks so similar. They had carte blanche to create a wonderful new interface and they mostly just copied Sublime Text. The go-to anything menu looks especially similar. https://t.co/5YxVbZcVcK
Just wondering, do you know how to code? What are your day to day tools as a designer?
The Atom team is recruiting I see. -.^
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#36No 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?
No, it's a desktop app, presumably embedded inside node-webkit or something similar.
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#37Can 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.
Guessing no, because of the Node.js plugin architecture ("need to call into C or C++?", "full access to the filesystem"). Really only the UI seems to be done in WebKit.
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#38No 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?
Directly from the "Taking the web native" section on the page:
>Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies.
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#39No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?
I just got an email inviting me to download the beta. The only download link in there is a button labelled "Download For Mac".
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#40Can 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.
Nope: "Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies." So it's using node.js internally, but it's not actually a webapp.