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comment by jug
jug  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Atom text editor: 1.0 release

I like how it feels modern in features and general architecture, the extensibility. It seems similar to Sublime Text on the surface but there are some important differences below the surface. For example a built-in package manager which Sublime Text inexplicably is missing. Yes, there is the de facto one, but I think there's a philosophical difference in creating a text editor where there is supposed to be an ecosystem rather than just adding the ecosystem as a "feature".

Best of all -- it's open source. I have longed for an editor like this being open source. Emacs, Vim, they're great cross platform alternatives, but clearly filling different niches.

It feels like a future proof editor which will only grow, potentially overtaking some other popular editors in popularity.