I can't ditch ST just like that. I'm in love.

We'll see...

This is extremely exciting. GitHub has been pioneering the open source community—and by extension, the entire programming community—for a long time, and I completely and utterly trust them to make the right choices on their own; but even better than that, they’re open-sourcing the vast majority of Atom’s infrastructure.

The fact they’re going to charge for it is the icing on the cake. Open source should not mean free – far from it, in my opinion. Maintaining an open source project is no simple undertaking. It’s a full time profession, and often an expensive one. Whether they incorporate Atom’s pricing into GitHub’s own subscriptions, or allow standalone purchase, the project is well worth backing financially and otherwise.

I am really excited about this.

Not just as a standalone product and not even as something that will integrate well with Github.

but rather as a new class of IDE's that are location/hardware agnostic.

Brackets and Atom (and a few others that are gaining steam) are going to be big and I'm stoked to watch this space evolve

FYI if you want to share but are out of invites, you can just send the downloaded zip to someone.

Two secs bro, just got to write some code for my editor so that I can write some code with my editor.

I know it's a lot more than that but that's just been stuck in my mind all morning. My favourite part of the whole over hyped mess so far is people offering Vim invites.

Either way, I have 2 more invites available if anyone is after one just drop your email in a reply

Who needs an invite?

There's lots of things that editors like these could potentially do. Haven't checked Brakets just yet, but I know for sure that I'd love me some CoffeScript debugging and direct Sass editing in the inspector.

Anyone have an invite?!

Interesting that they're not open sourcing it.

(Not saying it's bad that they're not - but I find it interesting. It says something about where they think their business is going I think.)

The editor itself looks a whole lot like Sublime. I really dig the style they went for on the landing page, though.

I have never been more excited about anything ever.

Anyone has invite left ? Please send one to prakaash@outlook.com

Thanks :)

And here's another hobo that jumps on the invite train. If you have one to spare I'll sign up to be on the receiving end.

vestman@gmail.com

Thanks in advance!

Would any of you lovely people happen to have an Atom invite going spare? I'd be very grateful! james@jamesstiff.com

Anyone still have an invite? Thanks.

I'd like an invite if someone has one. jimmyoliger@gmail.com

Anyone still have invites? hello@joshuasoehn.de

I'll also jump on the invite requestin' train. Would love to try it out, email is gustaf.zetterlund@gmail.com

I would love to try it out. Anyone has an invite left ? Thanks guys !

Had a laugh with this https://twitter.com/idiot/status/438994406452887552

Want to try Atom, anyone has an invite? ahmetyk@gmail.com Thanks !

Gonna join in the invite panhandling. If anyone of you do have one, could you sent it over to barskydavid@gmail.com?

Thanks in advance.

Uh exciting. Somebody got an invite for me left? frank@photocase.com Thanks!

I'd like an invite if anyone has one, or maybe just the zip. Heh.

My e-mail is hello@davidohlin.se

If anyone could spare an invite, I'd much appreciate it.

bill@billhinderman.com

Thanks!

I'd appreciate an invite there are any floating around out there. Thanks.

If someone has an invite for me :D --> hello@williambout.me

Working on a package for sublime text. If anyone got a invite to Atom so I can test it on both editors, that'd be awesome. Thanks! hi@bjornrostad.no

An incredibly smart move for Github that echoes the sentiment behind Google making Chrome – own the environment your users spend their time in.

The modularity of this project is also impressive. Don't like the status bar/file tree/editor? Rewrite them.

I prettified their 'osx style' theme here: https://github.com/almonk/atomkit

So for those who have had beta invites, how are you finding it so far?

This is great! I think this awesome for competition. So far ST has been the only cowboy in the city. Brackets looks sweet but too slow. Anyway, awaiting my beta invite :)