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GitHub Announces Atom 1.0

posted by janrinok on Monday June 29 2015, @01:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-what-we-needed,-another-editor dept.

Lagg writes:

Looks like Github has finally did an official release of that editor we all love to hate and generally be uncertain of. Except for me of course. I use vim. No one ever questions vim right? From the announcement:

Today we're proud to announce Atom 1.0. It's amazing to think Atom has only been out and available to the public for a little over a year. A lot has happened since then. Atom has been downloaded 1.3 million times, and serves 350,000 monthly active users. The community has created 660 themes, and 2,090 packages including can't-live-without packages that have their own mini communities like the linter, autocomplete-plus, and minimap.

In the 155 releases since launch, the editor has improved immensely in performance, stability, feature-set, and modularity. The editor is faster in scrolling, typing, and start-up time. Atom now has a Windows installer, Linux packages, and several heavily requested features have been added like pane resizing and multi-folder projects.

Editor: Are there any Atom users amongst our community - what makes it your editor of choice?

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Pino P on Monday June 29 2015, @03:07AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Monday June 29 2015, @03:07AM (#202604) Journal

    There are too many things in computing called Atom. There are the Atom syndication format [wikipedia.org], the Atom CPU [wikipedia.org], and now this. Is the computer industry really out of names?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by TheRaven on Monday June 29 2015, @08:44AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday June 29 2015, @08:44AM (#202697) Journal
    There are only three difficult problems in computing: Naming things and off-by-one errors.
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    sudo mod me up

    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday June 29 2015, @09:29PM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 29 2015, @09:29PM (#203013) Homepage Journal

      XKCD had the right idea. Use a bunch of letters no one was using, and that don't stand for anything. Instant uniqueness!

      -- hendrik

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 29 2015, @09:22AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday June 29 2015, @09:22AM (#202713) Homepage
    Don't forget the Acorn Atom.
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    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

    • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday June 29 2015, @01:23PM

      by Alfred (4006) on Monday June 29 2015, @01:23PM (#202770) Journal
      I think every computer I have ever owned has been made entirely of atoms.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday June 29 2015, @09:22PM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday June 29 2015, @09:22PM (#203008) Journal

    (NOT (ARE (FORGETTING (YOU (FAMOUS (ATOM))))))?

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