"Being modularised allows the basic user experience to be kept very simple." The basic user experience does not exist; or rather it is trivially basic in any t

"Being modularised allows the basic user experience to be kept very simple." The basic user experience does not exist; or rather it is trivially basic in any text editor. What's important is the advanced user experience, and it simply doesn't exist yet. For instance, Python support amounts to syntax highlighting; nothing compared to python-mode and elpy in Emacs, or PyDev in Eclipse. There's also a large gap between the promise of "Full-featured, right out of the box" and offering fundamental functionality like settings-view and command-palette as extension packages. What Atom has to offer, currently, is a bloated abuse of web technology with little appeal beyond Javascript hipsters. This project has years of hard work ahead to begin competing with Emacs and Vim in some niches; hard work that isn't going to happen because it's proprietary software, and contributors will prefer the open source text editors.