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Kevin Sawicki
May 10, 2014
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Atom: your text editor for the next 50 years
Presented at codefront. 2014 in Linz, Austria
http://codefront.io
Kevin Sawicki
May 10, 2014
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Transcript
Atom your text editor for the next 50 years
GitHub San Francisco, California, USA
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Kevin Sawicki
kevinsawicki @kevinsawicki
photos courtesy of apod.nasa.gov
3 years of open source at GitHub JGit and EGit
GitHub Android App Atom Editor
beta launched two months ago free and open source since
tuesday atom.io github.com/atom/atom @AtomEditor
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what powers Atom?
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Bootstrap
Bootstrap
Atom is hackable
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Atom is styleable
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why are text editors so important?
why do text editors take so long to make?
Atom your text editor for the next 50 years
what would you teach someone born today?
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Atom the text editor for everyone born today
Atom will be the best text editor in 8 years
Atom will stay relevant for 42 more years
Atom Shell
cross platform application framework node with a window object atom/atom-shell
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cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things
cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus
cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window
management
cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window
management automatic updates
cross platform JavaScript APIs to native things system menus window
management crash reporting automatic updates
browser process renderer process renderer process
start writing node modules for native apps
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emit an event when the setting changes
change a CSS class when the event occurs
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how do you get involved?
find something that annoys you
900 issues by 600 people 500 pull requests
by 250 people
900 published 500,000 installed
see you in 2022
questions?
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