Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "GitHub Kills Atom Text Editor (SHOCKER!)" video.

  1. Atom created its own JavaScript framework for running in the browser. Then this was spun out into a separate project, initially known as the “Atom shell”. Physics nerds: what are those things that occupy the “shells” around an atom? Answer: electrons. So the shell project was called “Electron”. VS Code uses it too.
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  2. It still lives on as open source. Why don’t you keep using it?
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  3. Switching Linux distros is easy. Since they all run the same basic apps, you can take all your personal documents with you!
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  4. Emacs is an editor, not an IDE. IDEs tie you to a particular build system, whereas an editor will work with any build system. As IDEs come and go, you have to learn new ways of editing as well as new ways of building your projects. Emacs has been around for half a century, and has already outlasted countless IDEs.
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  5. This is why an actively-contributing community is more important than millions of passive users.
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  6. When I started using Emacs, I didn’t do much configuring -- really just turned off all the automatic mode stuff, and started from there. That was 15 years ago (possibly more, but that’s when I created a Git repo for it). Since then, my custom settings have grown to over 900 lines of Elisp.
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  7. Vim variants keep replacing each other. But there seems to be only one Emacs.
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  8.  @DylanMatthewTurner  Are there? The others just seem to be smaller subsets. GNU Emacs remains the One True Emacs.
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