Everyone, stop talking about stuff I don't like. Since I'm so self-absorbed that I can't possibly comprehend someone not having the exact same opinions as me, this is obviously some kind of marketing hype machine at work.
Did it ever occur to you that people react to big things from big companies? No, of course it didn't, which is why you came on here and threw a tantrum.
How about this: go back to proggit and stop whining here.
Text editors were a big thing in the 1970's. Forty years on building one in the browser feels like...a text editor in the browser. There's a use case or two for it, but throse are mainly not having ssh and wanting to write extensions in JavaScript.
JavaScript is a great language but it won't get Atom to Emacs for the same reason that SICP in JavaScript peters out in chapter 2. The design tradeoffs in the language come due. What is rather surprising about Atom is that the great advantage of Browser+JavaScript+html, ease of cross platform development, is nowhere to be found in the initial release. What is perhaps more surprising however is that the only version is for Mac rather than that hacker's favorite, Linux.
I don't have anything against Atom, but for me it doesn't inherit Github's awesome sauce.
Everyone, stop talking about stuff I don't like. Since I'm so self-absorbed that I can't possibly comprehend someone not having the exact same opinions as me, this is obviously some kind of marketing hype machine at work.
Did it ever occur to you that people react to big things from big companies? No, of course it didn't, which is why you came on here and threw a tantrum.
How about this: go back to proggit and stop whining here.