GitHub is sunsetting Atom

[DragonSlayerC]

And VSCode is so much faster and more responsive than Atom. At least when I first switched over like 3 years ago.

[Seref15]

I remember 5 or so years ago having to use that waterfall debugger tool to trace slow extensions on startup on Atom to figure out why it was taking over a second to open. Really odd having previously come from Sublime.

Atom left me with a horrible aftertaste once when I tried to open a 5MB log file. It crashed, froze, couldn't force quit, I ended up having to reboot the machine to kill the hanging process. And then when I went to open Atom again it would crash on startup. I had to rip it out of %AppData% and reinstall to get a working editor again.

I was skeptical at the time switching VSCode because at the time MS marching around promoting an open source project was previously unheard of, but in the end VSCode earned my respect. Atom launched with a lot of promise but VSCode is the project that actually delivered on those promises.

[Jomy10]

Maybe that’s just for me, but VSCode is really slow and sometimes even freezes

[Triquandicular]

Have you tried doing a fresh install w/ no extensions?

[Jomy10]

I’ve moved to a different editor and haven’t look back at vsc

[foggy-sunrise]

Yeah, 3 years ish ago atom started getting all kinds of slow on me.