On: Atom Is Now Open Source

[donaldguy]

This is exciting, and bad news for Sublime Text. Though it will be interesting to see if Atom's performance actually gets up there

The Atom Shell open sourcing is also interesting ... I wonder if it will lead to a rash of other Chromium-fork-apps

[swah → donaldguy]

Can I run Atom-core on top of Atom-shell like any other app?

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There are builds for atom-shell for Windows and it gives you something that looks like this: http://imgur.com/H0RcGc5

I haven't understood what you're supposed to do with it yet (I thought it was just a library).

OT: Fullscreen and windowing is nicer in Windows... In OSX (@home) everything feels sluggish with the overflow of animations...

[anaisbetts → swah]

Atom Shell is a runtime environment that you can write your own Node-in-a-web-browser apps against, yeah. Atom-shell is the C++y bits to provide some of the APIs that are available in JS.

The docs for Atom Shell are pretty good, have a look at https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs to get started

[swah → anaisbetts]

Thanks for the explanation. What is not clear to me is if Atom editor is just an app that runs on top of Atom shell.

[tyleregeto → donaldguy]

Its got a _long_ ways to go before sublime has anything to worry about. The plugins and language support Sublime has is its real asset. I'd be happy to make the switch when the feature parity is there, because I'm not too happy with the way Sublime 3 has played out, but that day is a ways off.

[kipple → tyleregeto]

Just curious, why are you unhappy with the way ST3 has played out?

[tyleregeto → kipple]

Just really poor communication in regards to status, it blew past the 2013 release window without any status update from the developer. The product is great, just feels poorly managed. It leaves me with an unsure feeling in regards to the future of the product.

[kipple → tyleregeto]

Ah yeah I agree with that, I love the product but the communication has been... obtuse.

I was really happy to see that post from Kari the new PR person, but no more word after that... http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15477&s...

TBH I just want window background transparency and I'll be snug as a bug, all other updates are meaningless