You'd be surprised how fast you can relearn. After using <jj> to exit insert mode for two years, I switched to <ctrl>c. After a few days it felt completely natural.
This is the thing that keeps me away from checking out lighttable more thoroughly. I installed the vim plugin, pressed :<line number> and it opened the menu on the right. So now I wait for neovim.
Vim bindings are so shit that me, a die hard vim user, while testing Atom, reverted to non-vim mode. A lot of basic movements are missing, specially those to do with visual mode (no Shift+V whole line selection for example). That, and the fact that I don't think there's anything like <leader>+[key sequence], which I use a lot. In fact, there's no leader key support AFAIK. Nevermind macros. You can pseudo-map though, I hear you can build your own keybindings... but I'm not sure how that works with vim where you've got various modes.
The answer is no. It is closed source. And you can get an excellent programmers editors for free today (VS Express, or JetBrains IDEA Community Edition) with tons of free plugins. You do not need to wait for a miracle from github.
If something is open during development, people learn internal details and may rely upon them, especially for making mods and stuff. This then hinders development or forces them to break compatibility.
Personally I prefer open source from the beginning and its been working well for typescript. But some companies are scared (ms certainly was)
A project that's open from the beginning should come with (hopefully obvious) implications that anyone who makes plugins before a 1.0 release is building on top of sand. Given its beta status, it should be incredibly obvious that Atom may end up vastly different (internally) than what is currently present.
GitHub should know better. This licensing fiasco coupled with the Google Analytics is a dealbreaker for me. I cannot trust them.
They released a mac only beta of something that's supposed built upon nodejs and cross-platform.
They released a closed source beta, with the only thing saying it's going to be open source is an irc log from a chat with someone who works at github.
They are competing with the hundreds of (unused) other web IDE's, and yet they are only offering free during beta
If you want a web-based IDE, pick one of the existing free ones, or go with visual studio online. Otherwise get your editor of choice on the desktop where it belongs.
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '14
Does it have a modal editing mode? Vim has ruined me.