Atom Editor – Why coffeescript?

This tweet by Michael Koziarski sums it up pretty nicely:

So many angry, condescending and entitled nerds, must be the release day for a new text editor!

— Michael Koziarski (@nzkoz) February 27, 2014

I’m personally very optimistic of the editor. Not only do I see it improving but also pushing the other editors forward. Competition is good and I would think by having GitHub backing Atom will eventually include lots more Git and GitHub features.