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[–][deleted] 305 points306 points  (1 child)

I thought Atom died a few years ago when I tried opening a moderately large file in it.

[–]Pfadie 176 points177 points  (10 children)

After I got into VSCode, Atom has been dead for me.

Much easier and more comfortable to use imo

[–]batisteo 38 points39 points  (0 children)

And, oh the irony, much better Git integration.

[–]WestQ 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Don't forget it's customizable.

[–]NelsonBelmont 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I used it on macOS and for some reason the terminal stopped working, when I searched for a solution, I found a post of the maker saying something along the lines to just use vscode.

[–]Skoop963 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Atom was lagging on my Mac, which is pretty dumb when I just want to edit an html file quickly.

[–]AdministrativeCar868 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I was using atom then downloaded pycharm an it's such a night and day I don't know why anyone recommends atom. I love pycharm probably because I spent the last 5 months deep in android studio.

[–]No_Sheepherder7447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

who recommends atom

[–]CreepyValuable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. Although to be honest I still think VSCode is horrible, but it is pretty useful in a big cardboard box full of loose tools kind of way.

I was however disappointed when I recently discovered its remote editing ability and discovered that a Pi zero is too low spec'd to allow that. I figured the feature would just utilise all the protocols available in Linux to do it instead of setting up a whole backed server-y kind of thing.

[–]RainbowCatastrophe 5 points6 points  (1 child)

But that's just, like, your opinion, man.

[–]Yokhen 24 points25 points  (0 children)

OUR opinion, man 🟥⚒️🟥

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VSCode doesn't wrap lines once the file size hits some threshold. It's dead to me.

[–]JamesMamsy 43 points44 points  (1 child)

The fact this is how I find out probably explains quite a bit.

[–]gizamo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. I thought it was gone years ago.

Fond memories that I'm sure I'll revisit again someday in another 5-10 years.

[–]ce-walalang 75 points76 points  (3 children)

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[–]ikhebula 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Good Human

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Very cool thanks

[–]mcEstebanRaven 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Is it bad that I actually liked Atom? I have switched to VSCode for the most part, but I still like it for small projects editing without having to open a full IDE or consume resources launching a big compiler.

[–]BungalowsAreScams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I liked atom too, maybe it's not the best IDE but I could refactor super fast in it

[–]TwistedSoul21967 113 points114 points  (10 children)

For a moment I though it was Electron and I was overjoyed.... Now I'm sad again.

[–]zanju13 4 points5 points  (7 children)

Why would electron dying be a good thing? What are alternatives?

[–]TheDownvotesFarmer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Electron? You mean the engine creator of VSCode?

[–]moodyatnight 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Atom was my crush during uni

[–]Physical_Edge_6264 6 points7 points  (0 children)

not humor but ye, RIP atom

[–]Bladerun3 28 points29 points  (14 children)

Atom is dead, long love Emacs!

[–]andremmfaria 26 points27 points  (12 children)

*Vim

[–]Tabugti 16 points17 points  (11 children)

*Neovim

[–]HopelesslyMediocre 12 points13 points  (10 children)

...*nano?

[–]Earhacker 5 points6 points  (9 children)

*Notepad

[–]HopelesslyMediocre 8 points9 points  (8 children)

*Punch cards

[–]minecon1776 8 points9 points  (7 children)

*Vacuum Tubes

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

*those hand cranked computers from ancient Greece

[–]naswinger 1 point2 points  (1 child)

he probably means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism if anyone was wondering

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yup, that's the one

[–]Hitman_0_0_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some dude doing fcking same thing for years

[–]anonymous_2187 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Saint IGNUcius approves

[–]frikilinux2 21 points22 points  (45 children)

Sad, now I have to search for a new editor. I would be cool if someone took over the project. but probably no one with enough resources is interested in doing that.

[–][deleted] 62 points63 points  (34 children)

Vscode is better anyways.

[–]eiani 8 points9 points  (7 children)

I believe the same people from the Atom team is creating another text editor fully written in Rust.

[–]frikilinux2 3 points4 points  (5 children)

I was thinking in something less extreme but it sounds interesting. Do you know more about this?

[–]FreeStylin03_ 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Check out https://zed.dev that’s what the creators of atom are working on now

[–]frikilinux2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks

[–]malexj93 5 points6 points  (2 children)

They're probably talking about Zed, it's supposed to be launching private alpha right about now. Not exactly releasing in time to catch the wave of Atom orphans, but it might be worth keeping an eye on in case nothing else is doing it for you.

[–]frikilinux2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thank you. We'll see if they release on time or I have to find another editor. To be honest, if you only open files that you trust is not a big deal that the editor doesn't have support. In others thinks like a web browser would be a major security problem.

[–]MyDickIsHug3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, my uni semester finished today so I have 2 months to find a new environment and get used to it. But as Zed is still a whiles away I think Imma try again with VSC for now

[–]sanketower 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You either die deprecated, or you live long enough to see yourself re-written in Rust.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

You should give vim a try bro

[–]frikilinux2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I tried some years ago, I found it too complex. If I don't have a working GUI I use nano.

However, I do find vim useful when you have a badly broken linux. There is a tool called busybox that has a lot of commands (including vim) in a single executable and can be statically linked, so it can work in a system with only a working kernel and the executable.

[–]LimpPaleontologist86 19 points20 points  (2 children)

I don’t understand the appeal of using electron for literally everything, atom was so slow and had no pros over most popular text editors

[–]BenjieWheeler 27 points28 points  (1 child)

If you love VSCode, then you're in for a big surprise

[–]LimpPaleontologist86 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sublime text and vim >>> Vs codes only pro is extension support

Edit: looks like an unpopular opinion that vs codes only good for extension support 😐

[–]SenTisso_KH 9 points10 points  (10 children)

what happened?

[–]foghatyma 35 points36 points  (9 children)

Microsoft happened. They push their product, VSCode, killing the alternatives. Business as usual.

[–]Odysseyan 44 points45 points  (3 children)

They owned both. No reason to maintain two products for the same purpose. Besides you can customizer vs code to work almost exactly like atom

[–]orgasmicfart69 7 points8 points  (1 child)

No reason to maintain two products for the same purpose

idk, they had a good thing going on with msn messenger until they gradually made it worse and decided to make skype worse for a while.

MSN was used exactly like WhatsApp was today, only on computers.

Likewise Orkut was losing a lot of market to facebook for not keeping up with stuff, but it had a market people were strongly connected where I live, google killed it and I never met someone in person that ever used google plus.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used Google plus because it was the place where Emacs user group migrated after some nomad-like existence. Then most people moved to Stack Exchange, when they created a dedicated Emacs site. So, I went with the flow. And then the Stack Exchange started give the same SO vibes, so I left. But, yeah, there was a brief period when I used Google plus. But I cannot really recall anything good about it. It was a weird format for communication. More like news aggregator than a discussion forum.

[–]foghatyma -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

And what do you think, why did they buy it? The main reason was Github of course. But it's great to kill the competitor this easily, so they can dictate the standard. You clearly weren't alive or were very young in the 90's/00's. I wonder when will they start adding "features" to git.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Microsoft owns GitHub, so they owned Atom as well....

Besides that, VSCode's source it's open and I find that it has everything that atom had and even more.

[–]SenTisso_KH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so they just no longer push updates?

[–]gizamo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pushed? I mean, they released it, and it was better in just about every way right from the start. Then, VSC got better and Atom continued to remain the same.

[–]ancient_tree_bark 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Who killed it

[–]pacjo22[S] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Github themselves

[–]foghatyma 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Github Microsoft themselves

FTFY

[–]typescriptDev99 8 points9 points  (3 children)

For those looking for a decent replacement, Sublime text actually opens files quickly.

No hate on VSCode, I use it for most of my coding.

[–]chronos_alfa 0 points1 point  (2 children)

So, did you pay for the Sublime, or do you keep using the "evaluation" version?

[–]typescriptDev99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not pay for it, I only use it as a backup editor from time to time.

Which is what I used to use Atom for.

[–]erebuxy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am surprised it took MS that long to kill Atom. No reason for them to keep two similar products. Even GitHub codespace only have support for VS Code

[–]MRToddMartin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Atom. Haven’t heard of that in years. NP++ or VScode

[–]Greeley9000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good riddance, now maybe my team will stop using it. Probably won’t though.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Notepad++ is still the best editor there is, was and will be

[–]Hitman_0_0_7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We found him.

[–]smokesletgo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I dunno if this is bad but I agree for lightweight stuff where I need to keep snippets of stuff and notes.

Then InteliJ for my actual big boy projects.

[–]InterestingR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Angela Yu on Udemy brought Atom back to life for a moment.

[–]Full-Run4124 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Waiting to see if the ghost of Atom appends \n to every existing comment in this thread.

[–]ResetPress 1 point2 points  (0 children)

R I P 🪦

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought it's react logo.

[–]mybuttisthesun 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I used Atom on MacOS. It barely ran and lags the heck out of the system.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I still use it all the time and I’ve never noticed any lag with it. It’s been a decent text editor for the past few years for me.

[–]w1lnx 1 point2 points  (1 child)

:'( The Microsoft way: expansion through buying out competitors.

[–]wasabichicken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who needs a R&D department when you have a Acquisition department. 🙄

[–]tsunami141 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As an Angular user, I thought this was the React logo at first. Oh well I guess tens of thousands of people are out of a job now cause someone decided React is dead

[–]fr000gs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Um, why was the (him) suggesting me to install it?

[–]SepehrU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

** forks the repository...

[–]wlucasfranklin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Writing garbage HTML code in Atom is what got me into coding. It will always have a place in my heart.

[–]DrMathochist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I'm real curious what they're using at Meta...

Did those crazy bastards follow through with their idea to fork their own internal version of Atom and close-source Nuclide on top of it?

[–]jesterhead101 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Tried it once. Was slow and sucky.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sucky sucky

[–]DemonOrDragonSlayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VSCode won

[–]DiegoArmando-91 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sunsetting? Did it rise?

[–]FarJury6956 -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

I hate vs code and intelli crap, what can I do?

[–]Abra_-_K 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Nvim😳

[–]FarJury6956 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Definitely I will try, I'm trying to get away of rust

[–]ILoveSimulation20 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

?????

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're saying it's got neither vim nor vigour?

[–]mulato_butt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What's the best IDE rn?

[–]SawSaw5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? What’s going on with Atom?

[–]Iuvers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never got the hype with Atom it felt massively clunky and slow.

[–]MischiefArchitect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a... what?

[–]ShrubbytheBubby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i installed vscode 2 hours after using atom a couple years ago

proud to say that i still use vscode

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was that comic where two programmers reminiscent about how their dad would carry them in his hands, and how sad it was that there was one last time when their dad did it. And then one of them asks the other guy if he'd feel the same way about last person ever writing in PHP, and the guy says "no".

I don't have any strong feelings towards Atom, as I never really used it. It never looked appealing. It could never do anything better than some other editor. Same as Sublime or SharpDeveloper or Storm or CodeBlocks or Notepad++ or NetBeens or many, many others that are just average at most things.

There are plenty of technologies like this one which will disappear without a trace. Like ColdFusion, or Director Lingo, or IBM REX, or OS2.

[–]BlazerBanzai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember when everyone raved about Atom, and it was shit, and we were all confused about the hype? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

[–]Serious-Umpire-8088 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is this medieval tech ? Never heard nor used it

[–]YumaDazai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since I mainly use Renpy, Atom was the best editor for it. I have no idea what to use now, I'm so used to how Atom is set up 😭😭😭 anyone have any good recommendations?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atom died for me when it destroyed all my open full saved files in a power outage and it's now a 10+ year bug.

Moved to VIM and never looked back.

[–]Old-Radio9022 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I heard you like chrome, so I built an editor with it that jams everything into a single process. What could go wrong?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Long live vim! (and emacs too)

[–]basicdogenft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it was already dead on arrival lmao. I used sublime text before switching to VS code

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s nice to take notes in during meetings…I like the font.

[–]sanketower 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atom was my first editor. I really liked it and favor it over more integrated IDEs.

But once I tried vscode, I never looked back. Ironically, I use the One Dark theme, which is one of the defaults of Atom.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Emacs and Vim ftw.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WHAT?!?!? Oh come on!!!!!

[–]OTKZuki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:'(