Why? On 17 September 2015 at 12:09, Christof Stocker <stocker.chris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am just happy and thankful that people work on the IDE side of Julia. > But I have to admit that the whole web-based IDE movement annoys the heck > out of me. > > > On 2015-09-17 11:31, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > > On 17 September 2015 at 11:17, Eric Forgy <eric.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I agree. This is so cool it makes me want to learn CoffeeScript just so I >> can understand how it works :) >> > > > Yes, indeed. The more I learn about Atom's guts, the cooler it gets. Did > you know that Atom is actually Chromium with a different skin, and bundled > with Node.js? > > https://atom.io/docs/latest/getting-started-why-atom#the-native-web > > "...Atom is a specialized variant of Chromium designed to be a text editor > rather than a web browser. Every Atom window is essentially a > locally-rendered web page. All the APIs available to a typical Node.js > application are also available to the code running in each window’s > JavaScript context. ... In addition to the Node APIs, we also expose APIs > for native dialogs, adding application and context menu items, manipulating > the window dimensions, etc." > > > The idea of using web technologies to make a desktop application is really > compelling. > > Cheers, > Daniel. > > >
