He knows the answer to a question and he can answer that question and help him out. He's on a million mailing lists, and he just responds to them always because he wants to help people. He's a prolific developer, and he has this habit of answering every question that could possibly be given to him. Who knows who Raymond Chan is? Raymond Chan is this famous developer at Microsoft. But we can do them in less than the bazillion years it will take you to write WPS and Coco apps. And that's really cool because it means that we can do interesting desktop-y things like, open users’ files and documents and stuff like that, and show notifications and kind of do things that desktop apps can do. We can use web technology and reuse a lot of the pieces we've used to build our websites, to build desktop applications. So we don't have to use things like Cocoa or WPF or Windows Forms these things from the 90s. But then they realized, I was like, “well, this is really great tool to build this desktop application, but we think it can be a really great tool to build all kinds of desktop applications.” So Electron is a way to build desktop applications that run on Mac and Linux and Windows PCs using web technologies. How many people have used Atom, the text editor before? It's pretty good. It was really just this library to host Atom the text editor. So like Neha said, I worked on Slack Desktop, which was the first electron app outside of- Atom Electron was originally not this separate project. I haven't been up here and giving talks in a while so I’m a little rusty. But I have a few things to tell you about. How's the conference going? Is it going well? Is it the end of the day? Everyone's exhausted and want to go drink, and I am in the way of that. Betts: Hi my name is Paul, on GitHub and Twitter.
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