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I can only imagine how the people at GitHub paid to work on Atom are feeling right now. Microsoft hasn't been kind to them!
by kick 6y ago
I can only imagine how the people at GitHub paid to work on Atom are feeling right now.
Microsoft hasn't been kind to them!
- dflock 6y agoPretty sure they haven't been paid to work on Atom since the acquisition: https://github.com/atom/atom/graphs/contributors https://github.com/atom/atom/graphs/contributors They killed Atom the day they took over - they haven't had the balls to say anything publicly, but just go look at the commit graphs in the Atom repos. Here's a summary: https://twitter.com/DuncanLock/status/1177747512905461760 https://twitter.com/DuncanLock/status/1177747512905461760
- oaiey 6y agoAgree. And considering the size of this, they are executing a very well defined playbook. Sounds like a very successful company integration to me. Will be good for everyone.
- ta17711771 6y agoWow, I was okay with this until I saw the promise to keep Atom around. That's...scummy.
- sandstrom 6y agoThe people at Github that used to be paid to work on Atom may be the ones that built this :)
- kick 6y agoWouldn't be my guess, personally: https://github.com/atom https://github.com/atom
- mempko 6y agoyeah, not much action there. Vim gets much more action per day.
- abrowne 6y agoNo, this is based on VS Code's Visual Studio Online: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/30/microsofts-visual-studio-online-code-editor-is-now-visual-studio-codespaces-and-gets-a-price-drop/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/30/microsofts-visual-studio-o...