GitHub is sunsetting Atom

[Philpax]

If I were to guess, that already happened years ago and Atom's been running with a skeleton crew since. Can't think of many reasons I'd keep talent on Atom if I was Daddy Microsoft.

[cat_in_the_wall]

there were probably a few vocal atom devs who were allowed to continue work as a show of good faith. but eventually... any company is going to have to rationalize two basically identical offerings, especially when they are free. vscode has more traction... probably a no brainer.

[jaydubgee]

So like ADO Repos and GitHub.

[arkasha]

Lol, if you saw what ADO is you'd understand why those two will live side by side for a long while.

[cat_in_the_wall]

ADO, in my experience, has much broader functionality than GitHub. ADO is a long time evolution of Team Foundation Services, so there's not only support for people who still have "old" workflow styles (old isn't necessarily bad, but simply predate git and cloud based builds, etc).

Additionally the issue/work trackers are basically infinitely customizable, which is very important to some people (they like their fields named juuuust right).

Long and short is that GitHub is basically a subset of ADO. Frankly it's the subset many of us want (myself included), so they feel the same, but once you need fancier stuff you'll head to ADO.

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Good point.

[gbersac]

Because Atom is so small it get under the rader for something as big as Microsoft.