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> The programming editor Atom by Github is also a "traditional" desktop app with Node.js at the core.

Nope, Atom it's based on electron[0] itself which use io.js and Chromium as a core.

It started using Node.js; it switched to io.js in February. I think for the purposes of "What's the use-case for node.js?" node.js and io.js should be considered the same.

I think under this context, a student asking about node’s uses, drawing the distinction between io and node isn’t really relevant, especially since there are plans to merge the two.[1] But thanks for the link, didn’t know about Electron, seems really cool.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/05/nodejs-iojs

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