[chickenfries]

They could, but they chose not to. Maybe they know something about their organization that you don't. Either way, nothing is stopping anyone from writing a cross platform editor that you describe! If it's really so easy you should team up with all the people who show up to complain about electron in these threads. Until you or someone else makes an editor as good as Atom or VSCode I'll keep going to them as my first choice of text editor.