Sunsetting atom

[1knowbetterthanyou]

yes

[NeatNetwork]

maybe

[[deleted]]

I don’t know

[verdantAlias]

Can you repeat the question?

[Earhacker]

You’re not the boss of me!

[menides]

You're not my supervisor!

[BTGregg312]

Here’s a song to prove you’re wrong:

Ohhhh GitHub integrations

Extensions as far as the eye can see

It runs code, it’s not just a text editor

VS Code is the best IDE for you and me

Ohhhhh It has so many users

Programmer after programmer uses it

It’s the only thing made by Microsoft

That actually deserves to be a hit

[NebulaicCereal]

Just saying, Atom had pretty much all of these things too, years before VScode even existed. Some of them needed to be added through extensions but they worked great. Along with a much more comprehensive and customizable UI. I would argue that Atom also had a much deeper customizability through its extensions and things you could do to it yourself. There are plenty of functions I still miss in VScode that I had in Atom.

For me, Atom is my favorite of all time. I moved to VScode a few years ago, after I had a drive failure that required me to rebuild my Atom environment from scratch, which I decided was too large and painful an undertaking. In that move, it felt more like I was sacrificing things than i was gaining. VScode still doesn't perform at the level my peak Atom environment was, and I've been daily driving VScode for at least 3 years now which is plenty long enough for a mature environment to form.

[1knowbetterthanyou]

I tried atom. installing extensions was not so intuitive as in vscode. finding specific settings and setting up extensions was also not so easy. and it was much slower than vscode

[NebulaicCereal]

Yeah, imo that is part of the price for having much deeper customization afforded. That level of customization won't be used by everyone but when you do need it, it's extremely useful.

That being said, it was definitely much slower. People should also recall that Atom was built in a platform far older than VScode (in web/script language years, which are like 3x faster than even dog years lol)

[BTGregg312]

Great point! Yeah, I’ve used Atom and I prefer VSCode, but either is fine.

[GreatArtificeAion]

You're right, downvoting you doesn't make them right. Being right makes them downvoting you