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

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) by kadal on Monday June 29 2015, @07:38PM

    by kadal (4731) on Monday June 29 2015, @07:38PM (#202964)

    Parent is true. From TFA

    Atom started as a side project of GitHub founder @defunkt (Chris Wanstrath) way back in mid 2008, almost exactly seven years ago. He called it Atomicity. His dream was to use web technologies to build something as customizable as Emacs and give a new generation of developers total control over their editor.
    ...
    We're happy to say that Atom 1.0 today reflects @defunkt's original vision—to give today's developers total control over their editor with familiar technologies.

    What a waste of time and effort.

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