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The "future CEO of GitHub" said they will continue to develop and support both VSCode and Atom: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_fut

by helb 8y ago

The "future CEO of GitHub" said they will continue to develop and support both VSCode and Atom: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/e0a235q/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman... HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258114

the_duke 8y ago
I just really hope they continue with this experiment: https://github.com/atom/xray https://github.com/atom/xray. It's reducing Electrons job to the view / plugin layer and have most processing done in a Rust backend.
- 013a 8y ago
  There's also a similar project hosted by Google, Xi, which seems significantly more promising than xray. [1] https://github.com/google/xi-editor https://github.com/google/xi-editor
  - ksec 8y ago
    So Xi, is basically like an OpenSourced Version of Sublime Text in Rust? If that is case, why Google doesn't just acquire Sublime Text and open source it? Edit: Turns out Xi was burned out of Fuchsia, the next generation Android. So I guess Xi is tool for testing concept in Fuchsia. And it doesn't look like Xi will be amiable for general usage in the next 2 to 3 years time.
    - the_duke 8y ago
      No Xi existed before Fuchsia became a thing. It's a generic editor backend with an official GUI for OS X.
  - the_duke 8y ago
    Yeah I've known about Xi for a long time, but it's moving very slowly and is just a hobby project of a Google engineer, nothing official. Xray seems much more actively developed and actively managed by Atom developers.
- ssebastianj 8y ago
  Oh, didn't know about the "xray" project. So, the question I asked in 2016 is (in some way) becoming a reality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308553
_pmf_ 8y ago
> The "future CEO of GitHub" said they will continue to develop and support both VSCode and Atom They will "support" both by supporting VSCode and declaring Atom to be a subset of VSCode. I give it 8 months, tops.

by helb 8y ago

the_duke 8y ago

I just really hope they continue with this experiment: https://github.com/atom/xray https://github.com/atom/xray. It's reducing Electrons job to the view / plugin layer and have most processing done in a Rust backend.

013a 8y ago
There's also a similar project hosted by Google, Xi, which seems significantly more promising than xray. [1] https://github.com/google/xi-editor https://github.com/google/xi-editor
- ksec 8y ago
  So Xi, is basically like an OpenSourced Version of Sublime Text in Rust? If that is case, why Google doesn't just acquire Sublime Text and open source it? Edit: Turns out Xi was burned out of Fuchsia, the next generation Android. So I guess Xi is tool for testing concept in Fuchsia. And it doesn't look like Xi will be amiable for general usage in the next 2 to 3 years time.
  - the_duke 8y ago
    No Xi existed before Fuchsia became a thing. It's a generic editor backend with an official GUI for OS X.
- the_duke 8y ago
  Yeah I've known about Xi for a long time, but it's moving very slowly and is just a hobby project of a Google engineer, nothing official. Xray seems much more actively developed and actively managed by Atom developers.
ssebastianj 8y ago
Oh, didn't know about the "xray" project. So, the question I asked in 2016 is (in some way) becoming a reality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308553

_pmf_ 8y ago

> The "future CEO of GitHub" said they will continue to develop and support both VSCode and Atom They will "support" both by supporting VSCode and declaring Atom to be a subset of VSCode. I give it 8 months, tops.