I've been playing with it for a few minutes now, and it's definitely the case that it's easier to tweak. Not because of the underlying language, but because they expose so much of what's available through a GUI.

I'm blown away by how cool this is. I'm just really hoping for good Vim keybindings and I will pay good money for this once it's out of beta.

A good VIM keybinding plugin is a must for me as well. The one available for LightTable, for instance, simply wasn't sufficient IMO. I can't specifically remember what it lacked, but it was enough to throw me off.

Vintage mode in ST2/3 isn't perfect, but it's pretty solid.

Atom looks interesting. I really look forward to trying it out.

Agreed. Nothing beats evil-mode in Emacs, as far as I'm concerned. That's a model for other vim emulation layers to follow IMO.

Don't hear as many folks talking about emacs in evil mode. I tried that out for a bit, and I'm not really sure why I didn't stick with it. I used it a few months. I always liked the modal nature of vim and the operator/motion sequences, but I'm a fan of lisp/emacs and remember enjoying how emacs was put together more, from a modification standpoint (I don't remember any of it now)

I'll have to try that out again

Yeah, Vintage mode was okay. I liked the Vintageous plugin a bit better but even that left me wishing for Vim some of the time (more time to adapt might've helped).

Other than that, it seems like an incredibly well-designed editor. Really looking forward to seeing what happens to it now that it's out in the open.

You may have found it already, but there is: https://github.com/atom/vim-mode

Yup, saw it and looking forward to trying it (haven't yet). But just reading through the description made it clear it wasn't quite ready yet.

written in Coffeescript? Oh God how did we get to this...poor old Vim...

Lots of work to be done in the vim department: https://github.com/atom/vim-mode

You've been playing with it? How did you get your hands on a copy?

I signed up for an invite less than 1 min after I saw the first mention of it on twitter (https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/438789450147979264) and received the invite maybe 15 minutes or so after that.

I was given 3 invites, I gave away 2 but I'll give the third to the first person to email me. (EDIT: gave away the last one)

Doesn't seem like they're keeping too tight of a lid on it, but I guess we'll see. It seems like it can be freely passed around; I think they're just trying to gauge interest since it won't be free after the beta period.