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If Microsoft can sustain so many teams working on To-Do apps https://twitter.com/4Lou/status/1265723231396417536?s=20 https://twitter.com/4Lou/status/1265723231
by lstamour 6y ago
If Microsoft can sustain so many teams working on To-Do apps https://twitter.com/4Lou/status/1265723231396417536?s=20 https://twitter.com/4Lou/status/1265723231396417536?s=20 that they need a chart to illustrate how your To-Dos will move between apps, I think Microsoft can afford to put a small team towards maintaining Atom while a larger team works on VS Code and separately Visual Studio. There are different target audiences, and unless Atom and VS Code end up borrowing architecture ideas from each other, and introduce API compatibility, I don’t see that changing in the near future. Generally speaking, Microsoft cares enough about existing customers and backwards-compatibility that I could see them maintaining it until there’s more overlap in UI. There’s another option too, that GitHub is large enough they might prefer using Atom internally over VS Code by enough developers to support the project in the spare time of the developers using Atom instead. So I’d say Atom is only discontinued if it breaks due to lack of developer use and interest, like just about any open source project. I mean, has Bower been discontinued? https://bower.io/ https://bower.io/ No, but yes? ;-)
- dmortin 6y agoInterest is gradually dropping apparently: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F0_x5x3g https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
- pkaye 6y agoLooks like more popular in China?
- dmortin 6y agoI wonder why.
- doomjunky 6y agoEven more interesting is the comparison. VSCode took the lead in the late summer of 2017. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F0_x5x3g,%2Fm%2F0134xwrk https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
- JamesCoyne 6y agoAccording to this arbitrary comparison, December 2017 was a pivotal moment for editors https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F0_x5x3g,%2Fm%2F0134xwrk,%2Fm%2F07zh7 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
- ravenstine 6y agoLike with Bower, they're probably waiting for enough interest in Atom to drop off before they tell people to migrate to VS Code. With the example of Bower, there are still way too many projects using it in the wild. I predict it's going to be another 8 years or so before they decide to actually put Bower to sleep.
- ComputerGuru 6y agoSide note: I’m sure I’m not alone in believing libman completely destroys bower. It just needs better stand-alone tooling.