![]() Every Atom window is essentially a locally-rendered web page.Īll the APIs available to a typical Node.js application are also available to the code running in each window’s JavaScript context. Instead, Atom is a specialized variant of Chromium designed to be a text editor rather than a web browser. More importantly, the browser severely restricts access to the local system for security reasons, and for us, a text editor that couldn’t write files or run local subprocesses was a non-starter.įor this reason, we didn’t build Atom as a traditional web application. ![]() Web browsers are great for browsing web pages, but writing code is a specialized activity that warrants dedicated tools. The company has been working on Atom for over six years and has made the new editor available as part of an invite-only beta program. Github took the wraps off a new text editor named Atom. Atom 0.73 – A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.
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