A little over a year after its first public release, GitHub's cross-platform Atom editor has hit its full 1.0 revision and is already living up to its promise as a basis for other projects.
Atom was originally conceived at GitHub as a way to combine the visual appeal of editors like Sublime Text with the extensibility and programmability of Emacs or Eclipse. It's capable of being programmed to work with most any language or file syntax, and Atom's MIT licensing means it can serve as the basis for any number of other projects.