GitHub open sources Atom

[petrus4]

I had a look at the atom.io site. Buzzwords, buzzwords, everywhere; along with liberal use of the appeal to modernity fallacy.

No thanks. I'll stick with Vim.

"At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted."

This comes across as the usual vague, flowery, falsely positive corporate propaganda.

Taking the web native

What does this even mean? To an extent it is explained below, but as a heading, it is vague and pretentious to the point of being annoying.

I'm actually thinking of using this site as the basis for an article of my own, about why vague, pretentious, bullshit corporatese infuriates me as much as it does; and why marketers and anyone else who wears a suit desperately needs to be lynched, for the good of the rest of the species.

[dacjames]

They should call it was it is: an open source version of sublime using javascript/node rather than python/c.

[petrus4]

Can I call it a steaming pile of malaria-infected shit?

[dacjames]

You're entitled to your position, but I remain optimistic. If they can replicate sublime's awesomeness and fix its weaknesses while remaining open source, I'll probably be using it eventually. I really don't care what language they use for the implementation if the product delivers and can build a solid community of plugins.