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msoad on March 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

Atom is built on Ace

antimatter15 on March 27, 2015 [–]

I don't think Atom is built on Ace. They had their own system which was powered by React before switching to hand crafted DOM manipulation. Also, Atom's written in Coffeescript and Ace is ordinary JS.

msoad on March 27, 2015 | [–]

If you look at editor API it's very similar to Ace.

https://atom.io/docs/api/v0.188.0/TextEditor

I think they started with Ace but then drifted the code a lot.

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