{"id":36192,"date":"2022-06-10T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36192"},"modified":"2022-06-10T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:10:11","slug":"sunsetting-the-atom-text-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/10\/sunsetting-the-atom-text-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunsetting the Atom Text Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom\/\">GitHub<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=31668426\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom\/\">\n<p>As new cloud-based tools have emerged and evolved over the years, Atom community involvement has declined significantly. As a result, we&rsquo;ve decided to sunset Atom so we can focus on enhancing the developer experience in the cloud with GitHub Codespaces.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s worth reflecting that Atom has served as the foundation for the Electron framework, which paved the way for the creation of thousands of apps, including Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Slack, and our very own GitHub Desktop. However, reliability, security, and performance are core to GitHub, and in order to best serve the developer community, we are archiving Atom to prioritize technologies that enable the future of software development.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=31669615\">Nathan Sobo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=31669615\">\n<p>Founder of Atom here. We&rsquo;re building the spiritual successor to Atom over at <a href=\"https:\/\/zed.dev\">Zed.dev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>They call it a &ldquo;a lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/06\/visual-studio-2022\/\">Visual Studio 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/07\/the-era-of-visual-studio-code\/\">The Era of Visual Studio Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/microsoft-visual-studio-code\/\">Microsoft Visual Studio Code<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub (Hacker News): As new cloud-based tools have emerged and evolved over the years, Atom community involvement has declined significantly. As a result, we&rsquo;ve decided to sunset Atom so we can focus on enhancing the developer experience in the cloud with GitHub Codespaces. 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