For good or bad, whatever you feel like, Atom also gave birth to Electron framework. The Atom project was more than just an editor though. The stated reason is the same we all know “Atom has not had significant feature development for the past several years” and “focus on enhancing the developer experience in the cloud with GitHub Codespaces”.

…we’ve decided to retire Atom in order to further our commitment to bringing fast and reliable software development to the cloud via Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces. On June 8, Microsoft-owned GitHub announced that it is going to archive the entire Atom project on December 15, 2022. It was only time that Microsoft pulled the plug on Atom and it did that finally. VS Code is like the default editor for young developers. Though I don’t have any stats to back my claim, it did seem that Atom’s userbase was declining in the last couple of years. Microsoft branded VS Code was being favored over Atom. It didn’t have any significant feature development while VS Code got more attractive as features after features landed in every release. In the last four years, it did seem that Atom was losing its charm. People started wondering how long will Microsoft continue developing two similar projects that don’t make any money for it directly. It continued its popular run despite getting tough competition from Microsoft’s recently open-sourced VS Code editor.Ītom’s loyal fanbase didn’t budge despite the rising popularity of the VS Code until Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018. Its neat UI, features, and numerous add-ons made it the hot favorite of the developers. A brief history of AtomĪtom, released in 2014 by the then independent Git Hub team, was a huge hit among the programmers. Just as we all could not prevent the certain demise of the most loved open source code editor of the last decade, Atom. I could not prevent myself from writing that. Sorry for the really cheesy opening line. Coder, coder in the hall, which is the best editor of them all!

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