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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by latexr on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:47AM (#45558590)
> iirc Atom was the original Electron project.

Indeed (and the names are a clue). More specifically, Electron came out of the ideas in Atom, not the other way around.

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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by gimenete on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:08PM (#45561416)
Electron was originally named Atom Shell https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron/

Atom Shell/Electron was from the very beginning something you could use separately from Atom as a framework for creating desktop apps using Chromium/Node.js.

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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by latexr on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:31PM (#45561639)
You’re right, I misremembered that. Thank you for the correction.
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