[taeric]

The problem with Atom is that they didn't set a stable foundation for where to expose everything. That is, the window that they expose is itself under active development, if I understand correctly.

This is an odd shift of the word "stable" in software. For a long time, folks took stable to mean simply "doesn't crash." But, it also needs to mean "remains unchanged" if you want to use it as a foundation of other work.

Of course, I say that, and have to ack that the web itself has proven a major exception to this supposed rule. Nothing has been stable in that entire landscape, but it has continued to grow at an astonishing pace.