Atom: 10 things to know about your new text editor

Given at lxjs in Lisbon, Portugal

http://2014.lxjs.org

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1. Atom ten things to know about your new text editor
2. GitHub San Francisco, California, USA
4. Kevin Sawicki
5.  kevinsawicki  @kevinsawicki  kevin@github.com
6. 3 years of open source at GitHub JGit and EGit GitHub Android App Atom Editor
7. photos courtesy of apod.nasa.gov    
8. Atom is a text editor #1
9. what is a text editor?
10. first you press a key
11. that key appears on screen
12. repeat
14. Atom is open source #2
15. beta launch february 26th free and open source may 6th atom.io atom/atom @AtomEditor  
16. Atom is built on web technologies #3
21. Bootstrap
22. Bootstrap
23. Bootstrap
24. Atom is cross platform #4
26. 5.5 million files opened last month
27. 5 million mac 400k linux 100k windows
28. Atom is hackable #5
30. what do you need to know to hack on Atom?
35. Atom is styleable #6
37. Atom is all about packages #7
39. git diff package
40. git diff package tabs package
41. git diff package tabs package wrap guide package
42. git diff package tabs package bracket matcher package wrap guide package
43. git diff package tabs package bracket matcher package status bar package wrap guide package
44. git diff package tabs package bracket matcher package status bar package wrap guide package markdown package
45. git diff package tabs package bracket matcher package status bar package grammar selector package wrap guide package markdown package
48.  900 packages 300 themes 
49.  2,000,000 packages & themes installed
50.  blog.atom.io atom.io/packages.atom
51. Atom runs on Atom Shell #8
52. cross platform application framework node with a window object atom/atom-shell 
54. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things
55. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus
56. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window management
57. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window management automatic updates
58. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window management crash reporting automatic updates
59. browser process render process render process
60. Atom needs more desktop node modules #9
64. emit an event when the setting changes
65. change a CSS class when the event occurs
68. Atom will get faster #10
69. editor is being rewritten to use React library
70. text now rendered on the GPU
71. under 10 milliseconds per keystroke
72. 60 frames per second scrolling
73. old editor new editor
75. thanks!