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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

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 12y ago
Can I run Atom-core on top of Atom-shell like any other app? --- There are builds for atom-shell for Windows and it gives you something that looks like this: http://imgur.com/H0RcGc5 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...
- xpaulbettsx 12y ago
  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 https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs to get started
  - swah 12y ago
    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 12y ago
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 12y ago
  Just curious, why are you unhappy with the way ST3 has played out?
  - tyleregeto 12y ago
    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 12y ago
      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&start=50#p58951 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

swah 12y ago

Can I run Atom-core on top of Atom-shell like any other app? --- There are builds for atom-shell for Windows and it gives you something that looks like this: http://imgur.com/H0RcGc5 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...

xpaulbettsx 12y ago
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 https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs to get started
- swah 12y ago
  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 12y ago

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 12y ago
Just curious, why are you unhappy with the way ST3 has played out?
- tyleregeto 12y ago
  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 12y ago
    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&start=50#p58951 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