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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?

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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

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.

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