Atom is the hot new up-and-comer in the world of text editing. It is my editor of choice for building software, and it’s open source, so I decided to check out its issues to see how I could contribute. I came across a strange bug: the Atom user speter had written a line of text that, when you pressed Enter at its end, caused Atom to calculate for half an hour before writing a new line. I was pretty stunned that such a simple and common operation could perform so atrociously, so I decided to jump in and figure out what was going on.
How I fixed Atom
When good regexes go bad