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By the way, if you're a developer who wants to try Atom, go ahead and ask someone on the HN invite tree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7376063 https://n

By the way, if you're a developer who wants to try Atom, go ahead and ask someone on the HN invite tree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7376063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7376063 Keep in mind that Atom is currently OSX only.

Cthulhu_ 13y ago
I'd love to post in there, however HN doesn't seem to offer any private means of communication and I don't want to post my e-mail address in public if I can prevent it.
- cschmidt 13y ago
  Then send me an email, my address is in my profile. I have two invites left.
  - Cthulhu_ 13y ago
    Thanks!
  - cschmidt 13y ago
    I'm afraid I'm all out of invites now, for the rest of you HN folks.
- etjossem 13y ago
  Understandable. A few options: a) It doesn't have to be an email address you actually use: as far as I can tell, each invite just leads to a "connect your Github" and uses your GH email from that point on. b) You can edit your post to erase your email afterwards, if you're comfortable with only having it up temporarily. c) If you'd rather not do either of the above, you could directly email cschmidt (or someone else with invites left who lists their email in their profile).
baby 13y ago
Do you know why it's OSX only? Why didn't they code it multiplatform from scratch? I wish I could try it :/
- dorkrawk 13y ago
  I'm guessing that most of the guts of the software will work anywhere but polishing the frontend is a platform unique job. Github probably has a majority OSX userbase so this made sense for the initial release.
  - spoiler 13y ago
    Although, it's based off on Chromium. So, there's no need for much "polishing" since most of it is just HTML, CSS & JS.
    - mrbogle 13y ago
      There are a number of things: packages that use native modules, menu concerns, app packaging, etc.
munimkazia 13y ago
Wait, it's only OSX? Wow, I can't believe this! After all this hype, they didn't even release a *nix edition. They could have atleast mentioned it on their website.

Cthulhu_ 13y ago

I'd love to post in there, however HN doesn't seem to offer any private means of communication and I don't want to post my e-mail address in public if I can prevent it.

cschmidt 13y ago
Then send me an email, my address is in my profile. I have two invites left.
- Cthulhu_ 13y ago
  Thanks!
- cschmidt 13y ago
  I'm afraid I'm all out of invites now, for the rest of you HN folks.
etjossem 13y ago
Understandable. A few options: a) It doesn't have to be an email address you actually use: as far as I can tell, each invite just leads to a "connect your Github" and uses your GH email from that point on. b) You can edit your post to erase your email afterwards, if you're comfortable with only having it up temporarily. c) If you'd rather not do either of the above, you could directly email cschmidt (or someone else with invites left who lists their email in their profile).

baby 13y ago

Do you know why it's OSX only? Why didn't they code it multiplatform from scratch? I wish I could try it :/

dorkrawk 13y ago
I'm guessing that most of the guts of the software will work anywhere but polishing the frontend is a platform unique job. Github probably has a majority OSX userbase so this made sense for the initial release.
- spoiler 13y ago
  Although, it's based off on Chromium. So, there's no need for much "polishing" since most of it is just HTML, CSS & JS.
  - mrbogle 13y ago
    There are a number of things: packages that use native modules, menu concerns, app packaging, etc.

munimkazia 13y ago

Wait, it's only OSX? Wow, I can't believe this! After all this hype, they didn't even release a *nix edition. They could have atleast mentioned it on their website.