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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @03:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @03:22AM (#202609)

    Text, not video please.

    What makes atom more suitable for many projects and circumstances compared with vi, emacs, or Eclipse. Why it was developed in the first place. Examples of how it makes a developer dramatically more productive compared with his or her current editor. etc

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @05:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @05:23AM (#202648)

    It was only written because people stupid enough to buy Macs can't be arsed to learn vi(m).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @08:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @08:38AM (#202693)

      Well, if they don't want to learn vim, they still could have used Emacs, couldn't they?

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:47AM (#203226)

    If they only make their manifesto in video it already tells you everything you need to know: it's for hipsters and douchebags...

    And lo and behold: it's mac only, so QED.