The Story of Atom (Changelog Interviews #241)

Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it came from, the founding team, the problem it solves, on through to shipping 1.0 and beyond.

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Featuring:

• Nathan Sobo – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Lambda the Ultimate
• Chris Wanstrath
• Corey Johnson
• Github Atom’s Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe
• Atom on Libraries.io
• Treetop on Libraries.io
• The super early version of Atom was built on Ace Editor
• Atom: free and open source for everyone
• Atom homepage
• @atomeditor on Twitter
• Atom on GitHub
• Atom Flight Manual – Documentation for Atom, generated by nanoc, hosted by GitHub Pages
• Atom Blog
• Atom Forum
• The Changelog #216: Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos

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