Atom: your text editor for the next 50 years

Presented at codefront. 2014 in Linz, Austria

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1. Atom your text editor for the next 50 years
2. GitHub San Francisco, California, USA
4. Kevin Sawicki
5.  kevinsawicki @kevinsawicki
6. photos courtesy of apod.nasa.gov    
7. 3 years of open source at GitHub JGit and EGit GitHub Android App Atom Editor
8. beta launched two months ago free and open source since tuesday atom.io github.com/atom/atom @AtomEditor
10. what powers Atom?
15. Bootstrap
16. Bootstrap
17. Atom is hackable
19. Atom is styleable
21. why are text editors so important?
22. why do text editors take so long to make?
23. Atom your text editor for the next 50 years
24. what would you teach someone born today?
29. Atom the text editor for everyone born today
30. Atom will be the best text editor in 8 years
31. Atom will stay relevant for 42 more years
32. Atom Shell
33. cross platform application framework node with a window object atom/atom-shell
35. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things
36. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus
37. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window management
38. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window management automatic updates
39. cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window management crash reporting automatic updates
40. browser process renderer process renderer process
41. start writing node modules for native apps
45. emit an event when the setting changes
46. change a CSS class when the event occurs
49. how do you get involved?
50. find something that annoys you
51.  900 issues by 600 people  500 pull requests by 250 people  
52.   900 published 500,000 installed
53. see you in 2022
54. questions?