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No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?

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Of course it's crossplatform. It works on OSX Mavericks and Snow Leapard!

Currently only OSX support, win32 is being worked on, I imagine cross platform will be achieved shortly.

OS X and win32 does not equal cross platform.

I've seen reference to win32 in the settings.

It shouldn't take long given that it's developed in JavaScript.

Just like how a Java application works on all platforms!

Hahah, fair point! It's different and you know it ;)

No, just normal developer monoculturalism. Same as showing only Mac screenshots that is common, or showing your website inside a Macbook, etc.

To be fair, would most people know what super-shift-P means?

That said, it would be fairly simple to have a variable for super that resolves to ctrl/cmd on other platforms, the same way that most download pages nowadays infer your platform and show you the binary you most likely want.

If you're writing software, you know what the super key is.

I... I do?

It's the one you put the tux or beastie sticker on.

I've always wanted to show mockups in alternate non mac devices, but they tend to be ugly.

Are they? Really? Apple made you think that they are ugly, while not.

The most common cause of people showing websites inside a Macbook is that the graphic designer is using a Mac and Apple provides some pretty nice high resolution tiffs of all its products.

I just got an email inviting me to download the beta. The only download link in there is a button labelled "Download For Mac".

Can you share the file ?

Argh, I want an invite! =)

Any tricks for getting one?

trick #1 is to put some email address in your profile!

me too – I think my email address is there

An invite would be nice, if anyone is willing.

It's built on node-webkit and chromium, which technically works on Windows, OSX and Linux. Do you seriously think they would make an OSX only editor when there's already so many that work on all platforms?

No, it's a desktop app, presumably embedded inside node-webkit or something similar.

If it is inside node-webkit, I'll be curious to see how they got native windows menus support. There are some pretty serious bugs in NW's handling of windows native menus.

Right, and if they've been working on it for x years then they presumably started earlier, perhaps a custom fork of chrome.

Directly from the "Taking the web native" section on the page:

>Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies.

The download is only available for Mac today, but we are working on the Linux and Windows builds.

EAGERLY awaiting that Windows build. And if I can't get a Windows build, I'm going to go out and buy a Macbook Pro just to use this IDE.

Why do you choose to use Windows today?

Why would you not

Because I'm a gamer.

gotcha, cool

Cheaper hardware, Steam (and other games in general), testing on the platform used by a majority of our users, and more customization available than OS X, for starters.

“testing on the platform used by a majority of our users”

This.

I think that's also why patio11 doesn't use a Mac, If If Guess Correctly.

dat troll

purposefully tried to say it in a way that wouldn't seem like I was trolling. Alas, this comment came up anyway.

Any chance for ChromeOS support?

That... would be interesting.

It's most likely not possible until there's a "hosted atom" you connect to with your browser. ChromeOS is /just/ a web browser and won't run node, which Atom uses to do its processing.

It will depend on which node features/packages are essential, but it could probably be hacked together (possibly entirely using Atom's modular design, e.g. replace the standard file IO parts with browser-friendly ones like LocalStorage and the HTML5 File API).

Also: https://github.com/substack/node-browserify

ChromeOS (rather, Chromebooks) can run more-featured Linux distros like Ubuntu, ArchLinux.

@Downvoters: Please do your homework[0] before downvoting. If you genuinely think my comment deserved downvotes, at least afford me the courtesy of an explanation.

[0]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

The OP asked for ChromeOS support, not Chromebook

Putting in my +1 for a ChromeOS option.

You can make offline apps for ChromeOS/Chrome

You can make offline webapps for ChromeOS. Node will not run on ChromeOS.

looking forward to b a linux build

I hope you will not want administrative rights to install the program.

Linux, please!

Linux and Windows builds?? WHEN?? this month??

sources are released? i guess making own linux build would be faster :D

good

A Chrome wepbapp would be great!

Linux +1

I think we should start a new line of thought in the development community - linux first. :(

really?

I want to try it!

Windows +1. Staring the words 'coming soon', I'm like HOW SOON IS IT!!

I hope it can available on windous builds.

Linux Build??....waiting for it

And 5 years ago, everything was Windows centric. Things change.

On the homepage, it says

> Like other desktop apps, it has its own icon in the dock

it looks like it's osx oriented.

I'm certainly getting that feeling.

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