Github's insight, that an easily hackable editor will get a vibrant ecosystem around it, has paid off a lot. Two large companies (Facebook and Microsoft) have a

Github's insight, that an easily hackable editor will get a vibrant ecosystem around it, has paid off a lot. Two large companies (Facebook and Microsoft) have adopted the underlying platforms and created powerful editors themselves (Facebook's Nuclide and Microsoft's VS Code). Sure, with MS, their editor is their own component, but it's quite amazing that you can see two such products come out in just a year.