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by drdaeman 4494 days ago
Maybe. For node.js devs. And HTML/Markdown/non-programming coders. Not sure about the others.

A good programming editor must treat code constructs as first-class citizens and (at least partially) operate on AST level, not go with typical "hey, we have a bunch of text that we colorize and bracket-match/fold/dissect with some mostly-working regexp mess¹" approach. The latter is just a notepad, not a decent development environment.

As I suspect this editor isn't much different from notepad/textmate/sublime in this regards and it doesn't really understand a thing about the code I'm working on (just pretends it does), it seems quite useless to me.

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¹) Like this: https://github.com/atom/symbols-view/blob/master/lib/.ctags