Facebook open-sources Atom in Orbit, a web-based IDE

Facebook developers have crafted a version of the Atom open-source text editor that can be deployed in a web browser. Atom in Orbit, as the new technology is called, is now available on GitHub under a BSD-3 Clause open-source license, and a demo app lets you take the tool for a spin.
The new tool — which a spokesperson stresses is more of a hack or demo than a full-bore open-source release — builds on Facebook’s Nuclide IDE, which itself runs on top of Atom. Atom has a user bas