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GitHub's Atom: Yet Another Text Editor.

posted by Dopefish on Friday February 28 2014, @03:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the probably-better-than-notepad dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "GitHub's Atom, a new text editor blending C++ and web technologies, is now being released as a limited beta. The new editor, which claims to have partial TextMate support, is extensible with the help of a centralized add-on manger (the same way Eclipse does) and is heavily integrated with the github platform. The final licence is not known at the moment, but the project already makes use of over 80 open source software packages.

Access to the beta is currently "invite only"."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Debvgger on Friday February 28 2014, @03:33PM

    by Debvgger (545) on Friday February 28 2014, @03:33PM (#8547)

    Wow, a Beta I'm willing to try.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Debvgger on Friday February 28 2014, @03:37PM

    by Debvgger (545) on Friday February 28 2014, @03:37PM (#8553)

    Seriously, I already requested a change to try it out. Text editors have been a source of frustration for me for ages.

    I'm lately trying luck with Codelite, developers seem very friendly and I'm already using it for at least a couple of hours daily. It does have some rough edges but I generally like it because it is so much more configurable than Visual Studio.

    Now, a text editor DESIGNED TO BE HACKABLE? You have a deal with me, at least for trying it :-) It may be slow, but what the heck. Modern IDEs are already ALL DAMN BETA SLOW (Visual Studio I'm specially looking at you).

    Oh, and Buck Feta.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by hatta on Friday February 28 2014, @06:41PM

      by hatta (879) on Friday February 28 2014, @06:41PM (#8674)

      Text editors have been a source of frustration for me for ages.

      Why? I can't imagine what one would want out of a text editor that either vim or emacs hasn't been doing for years.

      • (Score: 1) by Debvgger on Saturday March 01 2014, @10:45AM

        by Debvgger (545) on Saturday March 01 2014, @10:45AM (#9048)

        To be honest, I have already tried them many times, but I have a job, a wife, am currently attending university and on top of that I have many personal projects. I'm honest with you when I say I would LOVE to master both, but I just don't have enough time. It would be cool to have something like an emacs or vim "lite" with 10% of their full counterpart power but with 90% less learning curve slope.

        That said, I'll try again in a few months. That's my fate :-)

  • (Score: 1) by BradleyAndersen on Friday February 28 2014, @03:53PM

    by BradleyAndersen (3383) on Friday February 28 2014, @03:53PM (#8558) Homepage

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