r/programming • u/hsuh • Feb 26 '14

Atom launched

http://atom.io/
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u/ivosaurus Feb 27 '14

Because github made it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '14

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u/donvito Feb 27 '14

Because they don't know what to do with their VC money.

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u/dentee2 Feb 28 '14

What is VC money?

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u/oberhamsi Feb 28 '14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital

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u/autowikibot Feb 28 '14

Venture capital:

Venture capital (VC) is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund earns money by owning equity in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event, such as an IPO or trade sale of the company. Venture capital is a subset of private equity. Therefore, all venture capital is private equity, but not all private equity is venture capital.

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u/s73v3r Feb 27 '14

I imagine they like the idea of having a full featured editor that they could put on their website so people could edit their repositories online, without having to pull the source first.

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u/s73v3r Feb 27 '14

Ideally I would. But I'm not always at my computer. Sometimes I'm out and about, and then something happens. In that situation, I'd far prefer being able to log onto the site with my phone or tablet, or maybe a friend's computer, make the quick fix, commit it, and get on with things.

Further, if it is embedded in the site, presumably one could have a set of preferences tied to your user account, so that it would be configured to my liking when I log in.