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Re: Atom

#51

Post by woah » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 10:03 PM UTC

Touche wrote: post #25

teraflop wrote: post #14

No 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.

I've always wanted to show mockups in alternate non mac devices, but they tend to be ugly.

Re: Atom

#52

Post by pseut » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 10:03 PM UTC

KhalilK wrote: post #31

What's the difference between this and Emacs?

butterfly mode

Re: Atom

#53

Post by lloeki » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 10:04 PM UTC

mrbogle wrote: post #28

The blog post: http://blog.atom.io/2014/02/26/introducing-atom.html

> we've open-sourced over 80 of the libraries

Some of them look quite interesting already.

Re: Atom

#54

Post by bsimpson » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 10:05 PM UTC

teraflop wrote: post #40

mmanfrin wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Brackets does the same, which is frustrating as platforms like FirefoxOS and ChromeOS emerge.

It'd be nice to see the backend be a drop-in replaceable API so it works just as well hosted in a browser/on a Chromebook/in a NodeJS process.

Re: Atom

#55

Post by akulbe » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 10:06 PM UTC

mmanfrin wrote: post #32

This might make developing on chromebook viable.

THIS.

Re: Atom

#56

Post by ahuth » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 10:06 PM UTC

angersock wrote: post #22

iambateman wrote: post #11

A 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.

I think he means that we need editors that are powerful AND easy to use.

Seems like vim isn't really for someone like me (I haven't studied PhD level computer science and I don't write compilers and/or lisp interpreters in my spare time for fun).

Re: Atom

#57

Post by bashcoder » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 10:07 PM UTC

hodgesmr wrote: post #12

Apparently this was almost 6 years in the making. https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/438791340222971904

Wow - I didn't even think node.js was that old. It will be interesting to see its genesis. The first git commit for node appears to have been on Feb 16, 2009:

    commit 9d7895c567e8f38abfff35da1b6d6d6a0a06f9aa
    Author: Ryan 
    Date:   Mon Feb 16 01:02:00 2009 +0100

    add dependencies

Re: Atom

#58

Post by Narretz » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 10:07 PM UTC

It could be really great. I wonder if Jon Skinner knew, and said to himself "Welp, I might as well stop with Sublime". However, Sublime is (mostly) blazingly fast. I don't expect this from a node based app, especially in Windows. And: I didn't see it under Features, but Atom definitely needs the command palette from Sublime baked into core. Only if it's core, plugin authors will set their hooks correctly from the beginning. Or even better, there might be a flexible command api that exposes each plugin's commands from the start and can be extended too. -> edit: the readme says it has Command Palette. Great! Also, since the term is identical with Sublime Text, I wonder if there's more to it than inspiration.