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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by tbrock on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:42AM (#17224970)
Atom is really just a testbed for electron, where the real technology lies. If you can make an editor that programmers love using electron you can make pretty much anything else (excluding games).
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by giancarlostoro on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:04AM (#17226604)
Why not games?

https://electronjs.org/apps?category=games

HTML5 and Canvas do work on Electron after all. :) I feel there was some post on HN about a game released under Electron to which the reaction was "I didn't know it was made with Electron!" not a month ago.

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Also Atom wasn't a testbed for Electron. Electron WAS MADE for Atom afaik. They only opened up Electron after Atom was out for a while, it'd be the other way around if what you're saying is the case. I think Microsoft is already heavily invested in Electron. If anything they will provide even more resources towards Electron itself.

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