Looks like GitHub is stepping into the text editor arena with Atom, not too much to see yet. The landing page has a place to sign up for the upcoming beta. http://atom.io/
Looks like GitHub is stepping into the text editor arena with
Atom
. Although the editor acts as a web application,
the project is using a specialized variant of Chromium to render itself as a native application. This allows Atom to access local resources, like a file system browser, where a no
rmal web application would have security restrictions.
For this reason, we didn'
t
build Atom as a traditional web application. Instead, Atom is a specialized variant of Chromium designed to be a text editor rather than a web browser. Every Atom window is essentially a locally-rendered web page.Not too much to see yet
., Tbut you can visit the
landing page
ha
s> a place to sign up for the
upcoming beta.
http://atom.io/