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		latexr 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died bef... > 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.

gimenete 6 months ago [–]

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.

latexr 6 months ago | [–]

You’re right, I misremembered that. Thank you for the correction.

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