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By the way, if you're a developer who wants to try Atom, go ahead and ask someone on the HN invite tree:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7376063

Keep in mind that Atom is currently OSX only.

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Wait, it's only OSX? Wow, I can't believe this! After all this hype, they didn't even release a *nix edition. They could have atleast mentioned it on their website.

Do you know why it's OSX only? Why didn't they code it multiplatform from scratch? I wish I could try it :/

I'm guessing that most of the guts of the software will work anywhere but polishing the frontend is a platform unique job. Github probably has a majority OSX userbase so this made sense for the initial release.

Although, it's based off on Chromium. So, there's no need for much "polishing" since most of it is just HTML, CSS & JS.

There are a number of things: packages that use native modules, menu concerns, app packaging, etc.

I'd love to post in there, however HN doesn't seem to offer any private means of communication and I don't want to post my e-mail address in public if I can prevent it.

Then send me an email, my address is in my profile. I have two invites left.

Thanks!

I'm afraid I'm all out of invites now, for the rest of you HN folks.

Understandable. A few options:

a) It doesn't have to be an email address you actually use: as far as I can tell, each invite just leads to a "connect your Github" and uses your GH email from that point on.

b) You can edit your post to erase your email afterwards, if you're comfortable with only having it up temporarily.

c) If you'd rather not do either of the above, you could directly email cschmidt (or someone else with invites left who lists their email in their profile).

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