I don't quite get how node.js comes into play here. I've seen lots of blog posts about it, but never used it. It seems to be about network programming. Indeed, the node website says "Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs."<p>Would someone enlighten me what the motivation is to use it as an editor's scripting environment?
This is a separate idea, but...<p>The "Chromium-like user interface where tabs can be torn off and moved between windows" would be awesome if it were implemented directly in Mac OSX. Then applications could drop all of that code and just let the OS deal with it. Also, you'd be able to group distinct applications. I'd love to have a [Browser, Text Editor, Terminal] tab group.<p>EDIT: Another thought... Chrome tabs don't look like any other tabs in Mac OSX. Applications lose uniformity as they're forced to define more about themselves.
Here's what I don't get about tabs and the phrase "programmer's text editor" -- what programmer only has 8 files open at once?<p>Looking at ibuffer, I have 92 buffers open in Emacs right now. What would that look like with tabs?
How about cloud9 (<a href="http://www.cloud9ide.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cloud9ide.com</a>), Bespin (<a href="https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/</a>), Codemirror (<a href="http://codemirror.net/" rel="nofollow">http://codemirror.net/</a>) or Ymacs (<a href="http://www.ymacs.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ymacs.org/</a>).<p>It would be just lame to have another editor on just OSX only, considering that most people have used some script-able code editor (like emacs or vim) that are openly script-able (or compilable).
If it is just for OSX, then there is a specific scripting language called AppleScript which is OSX only and should be even more integrated to the OSX APIs.<p>Well at least the "Chromium-like" part triggers my thoughts on web based editor.
Looks good. But I don't <i>really</i> care if I can style the editor with CSS3.
Concretely, why should I scrap my current code editor and start using Kod? Is it somehow targeted to Node.js devs; how is that better than Cloud9?
Will it do C++? I still haven't found a <i>good</i> C++ editor (with class member autocomplete popups and such) - at least, nothing that compares to Visual Studio over in the Windows world.