Xray
atom/xray: An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor:
Xray is an experimental Electron-based text editor informed by what we’ve learned in the four years since the launch of Atom. In the short term, this project is a testbed for rapidly iterating on several radical ideas without risking the stability of Atom. The longer term future of the code in this repository will become clearer after a few months of progress. For now, our primary goal is to iterate rapidly and learn as much as possible.
Development appears to be lead by Nathan Sobo who spearheaded much of the early work on Atom. It has some ambitious performance goals:
8ms: Scrolling, animations, and fine-grained interactions such as typing or cursor movement.50ms: Coarse-grained interactions such as opening a file or initiating a search. If we can’t complete the action within this window, we should show a progress bar.150ms: Opening an application window.