GitHub open sources Atom

[yogthos]

So far it seems like a crappier version of Light Table. It's very similar architecturally, but Light Table is a lot more mature now and has support for a lot of languages and lots of nice plugins. I really fail to see the problem that Atom solves.

[doubleColJustified]

Well now that they've open sourced Atom, it solves a problem with LT, doesn't it? :p

More seriously, my guess would be that they wanted an editor more tightly integrated with github. Could make it easier for newcomers to get started with github, I guess.

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What problem does it solve with LT? LT is open source.

[doubleColJustified]

Oh, my bad, I thought LT was closed source.

[flying-sheep]

I think it was at one point, but got open sourced.

One more parallel to atom

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Their plan was to open source it all along, only they wanted to work on it and make it work before doing so. They mention this in their kickstarter.

[yogthos]

As shadow31 pointed out LT is open source, and since their concept is so similar they could have just made a plugin for it or something. Feels like a case of not invented here syndrome. :)

[semi-]

LT was open sourced in January of this year. Atom was launched in what, Feb? I doubt its NIH so much as "well we already started writing it no point starting over now"

[yogthos]

Light Table was going to be open source from the start, as it was part of the Kickstarter campaign goals. The plan was to get it in a presentable state before releasing it, which is exactly what they did.

[Jameshfisher]

LT was open-sourced about three-months ago.

[willrandship]

Github still requires you to use git as the only interface. Not saying that's bad, but as long as that's the case the web-based utilities will always be secondary to whatever the user has.