I tried to get Atom running as a Chrome App a while back, but it's so entangled with Node APIs that it was extremely difficult even for another local environmen

I tried to get Atom running as a Chrome App a while back, but it's so entangled with Node APIs that it was extremely difficult even for another local environment. Given that Atom is so optimized to run as a local app, with a local file system and no huge penalty for loading tons of code, I think it'd be much easier to start over with the component parts and build a new PWA designed for the web: all filesystem operations should be async, and all plugins loaded on-demand, and possibly running on the server.