Remember the annoying Notepad most of us learnt HTML on? Or the Turbo we learnt C on? Honestly, if I didn’t have the passion to code, I would’ve never survived on these text editors!! The only thing they did was make programming seem as ugly and manual as possible. But over the years, I’ve learnt there are so many beautiful text editors I could try out. My most favorite is SublimeText. But it isn’t that extensible. So I turned to Emacs. But that wasn’t pretty to look at!! :p I’ve always been at crossroads with text editors. And it seems like the guys over at GitHub have been there too!
GitHub rolled out it’s Atom today. A powerful text editor that hopes to learn from the downfalls of both Sublime, TextMate and Emacs, Vim. They’ve released over 80 open-sourced libraries and are open to feedback and development. As of now, using Atom is by invite only. We at 4CAST hope to get our hands on it soon!!
Head over to the Atom Blog to check out the awesome features it has to offer. I personally think the block fold/unfold feature would be the most useful. No more scrolling pages and mentally ignoring blocks of code, it’s just a keypress away!