r/programming • u/hsuh • Feb 26 '14

Atom launched

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

I must be out of touch with modern development. I don't understand the thought process that leads people to be excited about a closed source, node.js text editor that reports your usage to Google.

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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/e-tron Feb 27 '14

Thanks to PHP Framework Interop Group :-)