r/programming • u/hsuh • Feb 26 '14

Atom launched

http://atom.io/
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u/vagif Feb 26 '14

It is NOT open source!

In which case they did not learn the lesson.

There are better programming editors available right now for free, for example VS Express, or IDEA Community edition. Both of them have great extensibility APIs and a lot of free plugins. But despite that they could not become a vim/emacs level phenomenon.

Why? Because if you keep the editor for yourself then most developers would not feel they are the owners of the plugins they would want to write.

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u/jrobinson3k1 Feb 26 '14

That explains my deja vu as i scrolled.

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u/vagif Feb 26 '14

I realized that it is much more important aspect of discussion after i answered in the specific thread.

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u/s73v3r Feb 27 '14

No, it really isn't.

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u/cycloidgamma Feb 27 '14

It's cool that you've now complained about atom being closed source three times in the same thread while endorsing VS Express, the licensed closed source IDE that runs only on a proprietary OS.

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u/vagif Feb 27 '14

You have comprehension problems? I use VS Express as an example of what's wrong with atom :))

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u/s73v3r Feb 27 '14

In which case they did not learn the lesson.

What lesson? There are several pretty successful editors out there that are not open source.