Atom has recently gained a significantly better support with the atom-elixir package. Adding language-elixir and linter-elixir packages creates a moderately enjoyable experience.
>Having an effective universal annotation platform in wide use across the web
...funded by venture capital with an expectation of hyper growth and liquidity event would not necessarily be beneficial for all users. To put it mildly.
The difference being that, functionality-wise, you don't get anything from using Atom over, say, Emacs or Vim. High memory and CPU utilization is a tradeoff I'm willing to take for the added benefit of running IntelliJ or Visual Studio, because as environments they do way more for certain code bases than either Vim or Emacs could do. But Atom? Not so much. "It's made of Javascript and HTML" is not an advantage (to me) worth the memory and lag.
I feel that this LFE release further validates BEAM as a promising platform for future development of new programming languages. Also I look forward to reading SICP converted to LFE. Available chapters can be found here https://www.gitbook.com/book/lfe/sicp
Given you mentioned SICP... SICP is cool for its math and its puzzle-like problems, but I found http://scheme.com/tspl4/ a much better introduction to Scheme and more likely to help me solve problems with Scheme in the real world (i.e. a good reference book).
TcpKali mascot is an example of great visual identity for open source projects: kawaii-touched fearsome ancient god zapping servers. It's both memorable visual symbol and an apt metaphor for core feature (load generation).
RJ-45 connectors with a skull hanging from the neck and a latte cup are just cherries on top.
One of the incidents https://globalvoices.org/2016/04/22/facial-recognition-servi...