Atom Shell is now Electron

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Post by hswolff » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 6:35 PM UTC

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#2

Post by adrusi » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 6:55 PM UTC

What does Electron do differently from NW? I get that one is Chromium and the other is just webkit, but what concrete, practical differences are there?

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Post by AdrianRossouw » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 7:01 PM UTC

interesting to see how many things have already switched to building on electron.

Slack, Mapbox and more.

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Post by AdrianRossouw » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 7:01 PM UTC

adrusi wrote: post #2

What does Electron do differently from NW? I get that one is Chromium and the other is just webkit, but what concrete, practical differences are there?

There's a wiki entry for that :

https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/developmen...

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Post by netcraft » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 7:31 PM UTC

Im curious about the name change. What do they stand to gain from losing all of the history of atom shell search results?

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Post by AdrianRossouw » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 7:32 PM UTC

netcraft wrote: post #5

Im curious about the name change. What do they stand to gain from losing all of the history of atom shell search results?

i think it's because electron is being used to build more than just atom.

having it be that deeply associated with the other brand reduces the visibility of the project?

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Post by Igglyboo » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 7:56 PM UTC

netcraft wrote: post #5

Im curious about the name change. What do they stand to gain from losing all of the history of atom shell search results?

Atom Shell is no longer tied to Atom the text editor by name. It makes sense to change the name as Electron becomes more popular in projects outside of Atom.

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Post by frik » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

Is it suitable for WYSIWYG or a plain text & source code editor? Does it originate initially from Mozilla's Ace text editor? https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace The name changes are a bit confusing (Mozilla Bespin -> Skywriter -> Ace ->(?) Atom -> Electron).

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Post by ars » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

That's a seriously confusing name. I thought this was a physics story of some kind.

Additionally it's also a bad name because it's impossible to google.

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Post by usaphp » Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

ars wrote: post #9

That's a seriously confusing name. I thought this was a physics story of some kind. Additionally it's also a bad name because it's impossible to google.

It seems nowadays there is no "good" name to google. Every single word in a dictionary is already being used by something else.