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I really would like to embedded atom as an online code editor... it seems like a no brainer given that its written in Javascript. But it seems there's no project to do this (hope I'm wrong!)

FWIW, I could never find any indication of an interest in this on the atom.io site, and googling "embed atom" and the like produce a lot of pages about Intels Atom CPU.

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Atom uses node so there is no hope of running it in a browser. An atom forum thread: https://discuss.atom.io/t/running-atom-in-the-browser/8925

just because it's all javascript, doesn't mean you can "just" make a web client. electron, the shell atom is built on, has a lot of functions that are tied directly to the operating system and atom relies heavily on them. it also has a module system that allows you to do require() in front end javascript without needing to bundle anything. it would definitely be an interesting project, though.

So it is 1. built on top of heavy heavy Web technology 2. very much tied to the OS. The worst of both worlds...

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