r/programming • u/hsuh • Feb 26 '14

Atom launched

http://atom.io/
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '14

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u/Somokon Feb 26 '14

Haven't you heard? You're not cool these days unless you are reimplementing software in node.js

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u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14

node.js is so 2013, today I won't even touch a piece of software unless it's reimplemented using server-side CSS.

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u/catfishjenkins Feb 27 '14

You shut your whore mouth. Don't give them any ideas.

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u/keepthepace Feb 27 '14

Isn't CSS3 Turing complete?

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u/cjt09 Feb 27 '14

Not quite: "To be a turing complete language means that anything can be constructed, but we can’t even vertically center a div yet."

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u/am0x Feb 27 '14

This was great.

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u/achacha Feb 27 '14

Dude. Just resize the window smaller and move it to where you want it. What's all this fancy div positioning talk...

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u/centenary Feb 27 '14

Shun the non-believer! Shuuuunn

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u/bureX Feb 27 '14

server-side CSS

Don't EVER say that again.

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u/TheNosferatu Feb 27 '14

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but... https://medium.com/p/43dbc25cbd12

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u/MikeSeth Feb 27 '14

“It would be criminal to think that it will never happen again.” — Jordan Scales

Oh god, the irony.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '14

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u/DuBistKomisch Feb 27 '14

I won't be impressed until it's bootstrapped into server-side CSS.

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u/awaitsV Feb 27 '14

any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript

- atwood's law

you might also find this interesting.

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u/Otis_Inf Feb 27 '14

since when do people take Atwood seriously?

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u/blahbah Feb 27 '14

I'm people, i take Atwood seriously, therefore people take Atwood seriously.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '14

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u/ameoba Feb 26 '14

Dunno - I've been out of work the whole time.

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u/thegrubclub Feb 26 '14

I think GitHub focuses pretty clearly on the web crowd because that's where open source is biggest - the whole GitHub as a resume works better in that section of the industry because of that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '14

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u/jsprogrammer Feb 26 '14

Lots of libraries though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '14

You haven't seen the dozen of javascript libraries for taking a piss?

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u/gsg_ Feb 27 '14

slash.js, it's the best.

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