<story><title>Building Nuclide, a unified developer experience</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/397706937084869/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xienze</author><text>Well, I think the OP&amp;#x27;s point is that it would be easier to bring Emacs&amp;#x2F;VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards rather than build the whole thing from scratch, as a webapp no less.&lt;p&gt;But they didn&amp;#x27;t, my guess is because NIH.</text></item><item><author>magicmu</author><text>I agree; with vim as well, gVim isn&amp;#x27;t much help to those who still want to use a mouse &amp;#x2F; don&amp;#x27;t know the keybindings. Atom is really the most versatile open-source GUI text editor right now IMO.</text></item><item><author>superuser2</author><text>Yes, a native-feeling GUI. Emacs GUI for OSX is ugly and unpolished. Atom&amp;#x27;s real competition is Sublime, but unlike Sublime it&amp;#x27;s open source.</text></item><item><author>gamesbrainiac</author><text>Why are so many companies hacking on atom recently? First it was MS, and now FB? Anything special about Atom that you don&amp;#x27;t get in something like Vim or Emacs? They&amp;#x27;re both open source, and very hackable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Blackthorn</author><text>&amp;gt; Well, I think the OP&amp;#x27;s point is that it would be easier to bring Emacs&amp;#x2F;VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting for this for literally a decade with emacs. It hasn&amp;#x27;t happened and I don&amp;#x27;t have the expertise to do it, so nowadays I exclusively use IntelliJ for the languages I can. I&amp;#x27;m probably going to start using CLion with it as well.&lt;p&gt;There are lots of aspects of Emacs that I miss but I hope that IntelliJ can take them over with future iterations of the vestigial &amp;quot;IDE scripting console&amp;quot;. They just need to put a lispy language in there like Clojure and bindings into the editor like Emacs Lisp has.</text></comment>
<story><title>Building Nuclide, a unified developer experience</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/397706937084869/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xienze</author><text>Well, I think the OP&amp;#x27;s point is that it would be easier to bring Emacs&amp;#x2F;VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards rather than build the whole thing from scratch, as a webapp no less.&lt;p&gt;But they didn&amp;#x27;t, my guess is because NIH.</text></item><item><author>magicmu</author><text>I agree; with vim as well, gVim isn&amp;#x27;t much help to those who still want to use a mouse &amp;#x2F; don&amp;#x27;t know the keybindings. Atom is really the most versatile open-source GUI text editor right now IMO.</text></item><item><author>superuser2</author><text>Yes, a native-feeling GUI. Emacs GUI for OSX is ugly and unpolished. Atom&amp;#x27;s real competition is Sublime, but unlike Sublime it&amp;#x27;s open source.</text></item><item><author>gamesbrainiac</author><text>Why are so many companies hacking on atom recently? First it was MS, and now FB? Anything special about Atom that you don&amp;#x27;t get in something like Vim or Emacs? They&amp;#x27;re both open source, and very hackable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;is that it would be easier to bring Emacs&amp;#x2F;VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps but nobody has done it yet.</text></comment>