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I think you must be confused... Atom is the reason Electron exists, they were created in-tandem like Rails and Basecamp. Electron is kinda like a browser anywa
by elliotec 10y ago
I think you must be confused... Atom is the reason Electron exists, they were created in-tandem like Rails and Basecamp.
Electron is kinda like a browser anyway, you can even open Chromium's dev tools like you would in Chrome.
They haven't precluded Atom from running in a browser, they literally built it in a browser and they just don't have it online.
- spankalee 10y agoI'm not confused, I know the lineage of Atom, Atom Shell and Electron. I also write apps that run in Electron and the browser with only minor differences. As a product and a set of building blocks for an IDE, I still don't understand why they would be tied so closely to web-incompatible APIs. I've tried to get parts of Atom running in a browser, and it's pretty damn hard. Many parts of Atom directly call node APIs and assume synchronous APIs where async would be the only option on the web.
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- lewisl9029 10y agoYou will almost certainly have better luck with running VS Code in the browser. The editor core was originally developed to be used for Visual Studio Online as its built-in web editor: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs.aspx https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-s...
- tracker1 10y agoI had no idea VS Code was actually open-source (MIT)... been using it as my favorite editor for what seems like close to a year now.