Atom Shell is now Electron

I'm glad to see Electron / Atom-Shell moving forwards, but I wish they'd publish a roadmap. There are things (like copy/paste) that are lacking and I'd like to know what the plans are. As it stands it's mostly a wait-and-see kind of deal, which is a bit disconcerting on big projects.

What does Electron do differently from NW? I get that one is Chromium and the other is just webkit, but what concrete, practical differences are there?

interesting to see how many things have already switched to building on electron.<p>Slack, Mapbox and more.

This would interest me more if there was a good automatic build process for it (in the style of node-grunt-webkit-builder).<p>As it is you still have to do a bunch of the packaging manually (or design your own shell script for it), and for whatever inane reason, `npm install electron-prebuilt` only downloads the binary for your current platform, so you can&#x27;t even make a replicable build process by using it as a base and using scripts that copy the different binaries.

Is it suitable for WYSIWYG or a plain text &amp; source code editor? Does it originate initially from Mozilla&#x27;s Ace text editor? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ajaxorg&#x2F;ace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ajaxorg&#x2F;ace</a> The name changes are a bit confusing (Mozilla Bespin -&gt; Skywriter -&gt; Ace -&gt;(?) Atom -&gt; Electron).

Electron&#x27;s &#x2F; Atom Shell&#x27;s homepage isn&#x27;t doing a good job of explaining what it is (as someone who&#x27;s unfamiliar with it). Is it a site-specific-browser implementation? It&#x27;s certainly not a &quot;shell&quot; in the normal sense of the term.

Is it me, or does it sound a bit bloated:<p>&gt; It now includes automatic app updates, Windows installers, crash reporting, notifications, and other useful native app features<p>* automatic app updates : We have distribution repositories for this. * windows installers: Doesn&#x27;t window have it&#x27;s own like app store now (market something?) * notifications: which we already had on all major OSs for years.

Im curious about the name change. What do they stand to gain from losing all of the history of atom shell search results?

I&#x27;m expecting neutron and proton too, that will make a whole atom.

Would it be possible to combine the project with Cordova? I don&#x27;t use PCs or laptops anymore because they are outdated.

Awesome, may they continue naming things after Acorn computers of the 80s.

The thing that turned me away from Atom and its&#x27; development is CoffeeScript. As someone who loves idiomatic JS, I still can&#x27;t get why you&#x27;d pick a language that makes tooling and debugging a nightmare. It&#x27;s also a kick in the gut to efforts to fix the shortcomings of ECMAScript like ES6 [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lukehoban&#x2F;es6features" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lukehoban&#x2F;es6features</a>

You guys should probably release nucleus before hooli does!

That&#x27;s a seriously confusing name. I thought this was a physics story of some kind.<p>Additionally it&#x27;s also a bad name because it&#x27;s impossible to google.

Wait, this article isn&#x27;t about physics? boooooring