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Introducing Atom

48 points by swah 13y ago

reubenmorais 13y ago
>Sublime and TextMate offer convenience but only limited extensibility. Sublime Text has a pretty decent API. I wonder in what aspects Atom's extensibility is going to be different/better. I also think in the long term good code /reading/ features are as important if not more important than code writing features. That's why I stuck with Sublime Text, its project navigation features are fast and convenient even on very large projects that use multiple programming languages (I use it on mozilla-central and llvm). Anyway, what a tease, I was expecting a download button :)
- thirsteh 13y ago
  > Sublime Text has a pretty decent API. I wonder in what aspects Atom's extensibility is going to be different/better. It clearly is. It has Node.js support. (/s)
ianstormtaylor 13y ago
Excited to see where this goes. It seems like Sublime Text is already pretty extensible, so I assume they have some big ideas if they make that claim. Aesthetic sidebar: I love the Invader-Zim-style illustrations on the page. If any GitHub designers read this, the Atom wordmark doesn't feel like part of the same family. I would love to see it be funky-alien-ified. Also, it would be sweet to make the sand grounds all have a slightly diagonal bottom edges to match.
sspiff 13y ago
A few things bother me: 1. The documentation clearly mentions only cmd-key based shortcuts, implying Mac-only support. 2. They say they will be sending out invites, and that they've released a bunch of libraries as open source. This implies that the editor-as-a-whole will probably not be open source.
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CognitiveLens 13y ago
The current docs don't make it clear why I might choose Atom over Sublime for coding, but it looks like an interesting platform for building all sorts of rich text editors with UIs targeted toward different kinds of writing - if it's as extensible as they claim, I can imagine an extension that turns it into iAWriter, another extension that turns it into a GTD task manager, another to turn it into a native blogging client app... building from there, more complex word processing might be possible. If this just stays inside the coding community, it will likely be competitive but not universal, but if it can be built to target non-coders, it could set a new standard.
- Nizumzen 13y ago
  There is an editor that already does what you state that works on every main stream platform, has a great extension language, has a huge library of already existing extensions and is completely open source. GNU Emacs. And if you don't like that Vim is also pretty darn awesome.

48 points by swah 13y ago

>Sublime and TextMate offer convenience but only limited extensibility. Sublime Text has a pretty decent API. I wonder in what aspects Atom's extensibility is going to be different/better. I also think in the long term good code /reading/ features are as important if not more important than code writing features. That's why I stuck with Sublime Text, its project navigation features are fast and convenient even on very large projects that use multiple programming languages (I use it on mozilla-central and llvm). Anyway, what a tease, I was expecting a download button :)

thirsteh 13y ago
> Sublime Text has a pretty decent API. I wonder in what aspects Atom's extensibility is going to be different/better. It clearly is. It has Node.js support. (/s)

ianstormtaylor 13y ago

Excited to see where this goes. It seems like Sublime Text is already pretty extensible, so I assume they have some big ideas if they make that claim. Aesthetic sidebar: I love the Invader-Zim-style illustrations on the page. If any GitHub designers read this, the Atom wordmark doesn't feel like part of the same family. I would love to see it be funky-alien-ified. Also, it would be sweet to make the sand grounds all have a slightly diagonal bottom edges to match.

sspiff 13y ago

A few things bother me: 1. The documentation clearly mentions only cmd-key based shortcuts, implying Mac-only support. 2. They say they will be sending out invites, and that they've released a bunch of libraries as open source. This implies that the editor-as-a-whole will probably not be open source.

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CognitiveLens 13y ago

The current docs don't make it clear why I might choose Atom over Sublime for coding, but it looks like an interesting platform for building all sorts of rich text editors with UIs targeted toward different kinds of writing - if it's as extensible as they claim, I can imagine an extension that turns it into iAWriter, another extension that turns it into a GTD task manager, another to turn it into a native blogging client app... building from there, more complex word processing might be possible. If this just stays inside the coding community, it will likely be competitive but not universal, but if it can be built to target non-coders, it could set a new standard.

Nizumzen 13y ago
There is an editor that already does what you state that works on every main stream platform, has a great extension language, has a huge library of already existing extensions and is completely open source. GNU Emacs. And if you don't like that Vim is also pretty darn awesome.