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		wisew on June 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atom 1.0 Electron was also not extracted from Atom - it was always extracted as atom-shell. It was just rebranded as Electron. Atom ≠ atom-shell.

bad_user on June 26, 2015 [–]

Maybe we aren't speaking the same language. Here's what it says on electron.atom.io:

"Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor"

So what are we talking about?

rplnt on June 26, 2015 | [–]

"for" does not equal "as part of".

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