It's a shame. Atom was my first love, taking me away from the pain of using GEdit to write code for my college courses. I loved finding new packages and tuning and tweaking it all just right. I'll miss it.
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#12What recommendations do you all have for alternatives?
vim -> Sublime -> Emacs -> VSCode -> Emacs
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#13What recommendations do you all have for alternatives?
Sublime Text
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#14“Sunsetting” an open source project seems… unfitting? Hand it off to the community, look for new maintainers, donate it to the Apache Retirement Home for Veteran Projects, sure. But saying that you’ve decided to “sunset” or “archive” it, telling users to plan for their migration, seems counter to the notion that open source software forms part of a commons - something that Github, of all companies, should understand.
GitHub is owned by Microsoft, the company that invented "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".
We should be counting down the days till they sunset VS Code to focus on VS Code "Pro".
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#15Atom was great, but I'll admit that I'd forgotten about it entirely.
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#16Sad day! But VSCode ate it up. Whatever one might say this had a huge hand in making Electron mainstream.
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#18What recommendations do you all have for alternatives?
VSCodium
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#19I really liked Atom for non-code editing as it is usually much faster than VS Code, so this is quite unfortunate news
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#20What recommendations do you all have for alternatives?
Honestly? Emacs. Gonna be around for at least as long as RMS is still alive. I'd accept Vim as a runner-up; I'm conversant in it and can see where people might prefer it (though honestly, those people should probably enable evil-mode in emacs).
But realistically? A significant majority of developers use Visual Studio Code; Atom is still only being used by absolute diehards. Visual Studio Code's complete supplantation of Atom (with which it competes for resources in the same organization) is why we're having this discussion.