Atom Flashcards
1
Q
What is Atom? Why Atom? Who built it? How to download?
A
Atom is a text editor. More extensibility. More flexible than other highly extensible editors Emacs and Vim. Built by the devs at Github to be the ultimate hackable editor. Download at atom.io/.
2
Q
Anything interesting about how Atom was built?
A
Atom was built on the Chromium opensource browser, so Atom is essentially a browser (https://atom.io/packages/browser-plus) and not just a piece of native software (software that runs on your computer and has little or no interaction w/ the web).
3
Q
Explain how atom is installed
A
Use atom.io.
