Why did Atom text editor fail?
Github kills Atom text editor, what went wrong?
Hunter Jones
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Brody Evans
VSCode took over
Grayson Hernandez
Because Microsoft owns GitHub, and it makes no sense for them to keep Atom around when Microsoft already offers VSCode.
Benjamin Smith
VSCode design language is so much worse than Atoms
Juan Cook
it's just damn slow
Ethan Thomas
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Logan Parker
Is sad, because as he says Atom looks much better, but VSCode is the round peg everyone piggybacks on so even if it looks like shit forever all Atom plugins would eventually break without enough maintance.
Chase Edwards
I had a coworker who used Atom for a Go project. He came to me with a question about about how to write a function for a struct, but it turns out it already existed. Atom code completion wasn't suggesting the extension function for the struct. It worked fine in Goland and even VSCode. He stopped using Atom afterwards.
Jeremiah Scott
'bloated electron garbage' was what everyone was spamming here when it came out
kinda ironic that vscode ended up taking over
Andrew Carter
>kills
Just fork it.
Hudson Miller
So this is the average Goland user
Sebastian Cook
It was slow. People sit here waxing philosophical about how sad it was that atom got shit canned, but I guarantee none of you used it. I tried it and it ran like shit and that was when I went to something else. People like to talk about how extensible it is, but emacs already did all of that and didn't run like shit.
Joshua Garcia
LOL I forgot this piece of shit existed.
Parker Nguyen
wait, wasn't electron invented to make atom?
Noah Flores
the Atom devs are making a new editor
zed.dev
but it will be proprietary from what I have seen so far.
Aaron Walker
>extra dope
This is psyop
Luis Scott
VScode + codespaces.
Gavin Ortiz
>zed.dev
sounds like every other editor why is everyone doing this crap again? Is there no money in CAD tools or programming tax software?
Evan Anderson
who gives a shit
Colton Fisher
Fans of slow electron apps
Evan Lewis
You will own nothing.
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