Translation: 'Extinguishing Atom Text Editor'. Really expected and unsurprising.
It took longer than I expected.
Sunsetting Atom
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#42I still prefer Atom's UX design over VSCode and I can't explain why. Amazing job on that front! I hope it gets traction with community support.
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#43“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".
VS Code Pro already exists. It's called Visual Studio.
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#44“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".
"VS Code Pro" came out in 1997
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#45I remember this being released and this was a concern at the time that the project would be abandoned. If I remember this it was mostly a concern as Github as a company should focus on their main product which is not an editor and that there are many existing editor that do it better. I suspect that what actually killed this is the acquisition of Github by Microsoft and the fact that Microsoft are pushing VSCode very…
What other editors are better and could be recommended? I guess I'm replacing Atom today
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
When this inevitably happens to VSCode, I'm sure we'll all flock to Sublime Text in droves (or some hip new editor on the block). Contingency planning for this could be a small but wise time investment for dependent teams. VSCode could very well go the way of the Do... Docker.
I am sticking to my Intellij products for this very reason. They work great and the motives of the company are straightforward.
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#47“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.
The code isn't being sunsetted, and anyone who wants to take it and keep working on it is free to do so.
But winding down the project is still a major event, and I think that it is appropriate to call that sunsetting. The existing project organization will go away. The team will presumably dissolve, with any people being paid to work on it going on to other things. I've seen this happen enough times to know that it is, indeed, an end of sorts. "The community" is almost never large and organized enough to keep a project like this vital. At best, they can only slow its descent into obscurity.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
When this inevitably happens to VSCode, I'm sure we'll all flock to Sublime Text in droves (or some hip new editor on the block). Contingency planning for this could be a small but wise time investment for dependent teams. VSCode could very well go the way of the Do... Docker.
Why would this happen to VsCode? VSCode is a proprietary form of Atom is not? It’s hugely successful Microsoft would never do such a thing.
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#50What recommendations do you all have for alternatives?
I've used many text editors back and forth and keep going back to Kate. It's what I use now. I'm not sure I'd say it's the best choice for everyone but it's what works for me the best it seems.