Kaligule

Tabs are the better idea, they just never work well in shared projects. So I use spaces.

I never heard aboit tus before, so let me ask this: What ebcryption does it use? I couldn't find a word about it on theyr website.

I don't think people come always before ideology. Imagine a medival king saying "But we have all these great torturers, we havily invested into them, they are the best of their kind and they bring great results. We can't stop torture now."

Atom ist not free as in freedom, just free as in beer.

The Plugin System could do with some polish, for example. Whenever one of my plugins broke it was a complete mess to remove the bad file.

Filterbubbles perhaps? I never saw a website like this before. But he says he was featured a couple of times, so maybe the website was famous on some communities, but seldom seen on others.

tldr: gcc was a good compiler compared with the existing alternatives, so people used it. It also was free.