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It is still difficult for me to express my opinion of this move without simply resorting to strings of profanity. Frankly, I suspect Atom has more to do with it

• walterbell 12y ago
  Why is Atom more strategically important to Github than existing developers? Is there an economic belief that Atom will reach some larger base of untapped developers who don't know how to use other editors? If a vendor cannot be trusted to host your content without regression, why would you trust that vendor to supply your mission-critical editor?
  • stingraycharles 12y ago
    No, but the article highlights that maybe they are using Github's traction to get a better syntax highlighter for Atom. As in, instead of waiting for a large community of Atom users contribute Atom syntax highlighting, they simply push the same engine onto Github and let that community take care of the syntax highlighting they actually care bout. If this were the case, it would be slightly evil, but very clever business-wise. But we don't know, so all this is is a small conspiracy theory.
    • vegedor 12y ago
      If the strategy is that obvious, how would it still be clever? Rather than simply brazen, that is.
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