Microsoft Terminate Atom Editor

The Atom Editor has come to an end, and it was it's own child that lead to the termination! Microsoft, who now own GitHub, have decided that having two open source code editor projects doesn't make a ton of sense, and between Visual Studio Code and GitHub's Atom, VSC won and lives to code another day. Atom however is responsible for a very important piece of software which will live on in infamy.

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[KyleHarrisonRedacted]

I remember when Atom dropped and it was SO much cooler and richer than the others like Notepad++ or SublimeText, but yeah I agree the performance was oddly garbage. When VSCode dropped, I was blown away with just HOW much better it performed, especially on larger code bases. Been using it ever since as a companion tool to JetBrains IDEs

[TAINCER_]

Fun fact: Electron was called Atom Shell... Before it became what it is now.

[rrhclsn]

Jeeez, that's so sad. Even though I use VSCode, I'm still sorry for it to die.

[cintrond]

Electron is nice, but I'm hopeful for its growing competition that offer smaller app sizes with lower memory footprint.

[snesmocha]

oh... YOU'RE JOKING WITH ME, COME ON I JUST MIGRATED MY ENTIRE WORKFLOW TO ATOM A FEW DAYS AGO, WHAT THE HECK

[shayneoneill]

Reminder folks: Sublime Text is still around, and it still runs like a dream. Atom had one thing better than anything else, its git integration was awesome. Well EMACS had better integration, but that things a giant multiheaded beast of an editor with some pretty strange key combos.

[caioferreira]

Atom is a very important piece of history but, ultimately, VS Code is astronomically more popular.

[VolcanicPenguin]

I love Atom and will continue to use it.

I like the design of a dark gray editor that very clearly highlights your git diff by making files and folders in your tree hierarchy yellow and green and showing the yellow and green files of your git diff on the right as well. VS Code uses a bunch of colored icons for files and stuff.

Also I like being able to customize my syntax highlighting through CSS.

[RenderingUser]

for some reason, I used to think that atom was the new, more modern version of vscode

today I learned that atom is literally the predecessor of vscode

that made me rethink a bunch of stuff

[Joso]

I worked with Visual Studio Code and Atom.
Atom is chill, you go in and you program.

[danielphil]

I always tried to use atom but it just couldn't settle with me.

[kac]

I've used atom for years for python development and the Hydrogen extension was the main reason I didn't move to VSCode sooner. In my opinion there are still no extensions today that can match the interactive functionality that Hydrogen provides.

[dustinkrejci]

that 30 second intro had me thinking this video is a murder mystery.

[phanisrikar]

I do agree atom is not the best in terms of performance but it’s my go to IDE for a number of projects I love how simple it is and helps me customise with plugins and themes. I primarily Use it on MAC for homebrew and PS console homebrew apps, also for some graphics CMake and premake projects it’s soo simple to even edit snippets and single files. I will miss atom a lot! Will always prefer it over any other editor

[jena_thornwyrd]

A dad killing his son is infanticide, not patricide.

[djpeterson]

I use them both, plus VS. I use VSCode primarily for my pay work in Web dev. VS I use in Unity, and I use Atom for a home-brew scripting language which ties to my Unity and other C#-based projects. Since it's my own scripting language, I don't use a lot of the features you would expect from other more established languages, and since it's roughly based on C, I can set the language to C, C++ or C# and get decent syntax highlighting for it. Sad to see Atom go. I'll continue to use it even after it goes away just because my uses for it are pretty basic. It was a trooper.

[ighsight]

When I first started learning JS all the course instructors used it and talked about how cool it was. Then there seemed to be shift in the tuts to Sublime, then VS Code came and took ALL lunches.Or maybe it was Sublime then Atom then VS Code.

[joshbishop]

I tried Atom out a few years ago for coding in Unity, but really didn't like it--like you said, it's more focused on web development, so it's like trying to use a hammer to drill a screw. VScode does seem to be the best software for Unity, but if it were just a LITTLE bit easier I'd use sublime text for programming in Unity instead (it's just a little bit faster and idk I just kinda like its vibe). RIP Atom, you served us well.

[WildWestDesigns]

I preferred Atom over VSCode or Codium(prefer that over VS proper). Now use Neovim. Honestly, instead of Electron, should just use Webview. When I was experimenting with that versus C++ and immediate mode gui, I could see up to 60% less resources using webview versus Electron.

[fbiagentmiyakohoshino]

ever since ive used vscode, ive never looked back for any ide. and it really seems to perform very fast, compared to some ides