<story><title>Atom 1.0</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joefitzgerald</author><text>The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That&amp;#x27;s not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it&amp;#x27;s just what draws me to Atom.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s super easy to hack on and contribute to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the Cycle of Bloat.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1. Develop tool. It&amp;#x27;s small and fast and minimal! Woo!
    2. It&amp;#x27;s easy to modify because it&amp;#x27;s so small! Woo!
    3. Look, there&amp;#x27;s a budding ecosystem of packages! Woo! (Let&amp;#x27;s
       not talk about the fact the packages exist precisely because
       the original product wasn&amp;#x27;t big enough.)
    4. Oh dear, some of them conflict, a lot of them suck. Well, 
       here&amp;#x27;s some winners, let&amp;#x27;s pull them into the core. Now the
       base system is that much better! Woo!
    5. Repeat 3 and 4 a few times.
    6. Crap, this tool is all bloated and slow. I&amp;#x27;m going to go
       create a small, fast, minimalist solution!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Repeat indefinitely.&lt;p&gt;See also: &amp;quot;minimalist web framework&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;minimalist Linux distribution&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;minimalist programming language&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Atom 1.0</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joefitzgerald</author><text>The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That&amp;#x27;s not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it&amp;#x27;s just what draws me to Atom.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s super easy to hack on and contribute to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omouse</author><text>Welcome to what I&amp;#x27;ve felt with Emacs since I first used it.&lt;p&gt;Might be time to work on some tutorials and examples to make Emacs easier to hack on and contribute to...</text></comment>