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Git repositories have the lovely properties that deletes aren't propagated. Shared/cloud storage sync deletes across devices. Accidentally deleting content in a local git repo, and even pushing it, is a safe operation.

I've always written dumb lisp parsers in the past: a list is just "(" EXPR* ")". Checking came later. I'm trying something different in my current project, pushing special forms into the parsing logic. This means that e.g. (if) is a parse error. It has a different vibe.

I'm curious to see what impact Microsoft's purchase of GitHub has on the long term prospects of Atom. Atom is a lovely editor pushing the boundaries of web tech amd editor design in several areas, but its usecase is similar to VS Code. Would MS want to fund three editor teams?