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Hardly surprising. The writing was on the wall for Atom as soon as Microsoft acquired Github. It's a pity. Atom has some notable features that, to my mind, a
by spinningslate 4y ago
Hardly surprising. The writing was on the wall for Atom as soon as Microsoft acquired Github.
It's a pity. Atom has some notable features that, to my mind, are improvements compared to vscode. Using Tree Sitter [0] instead of inscrutable TextMate regexes [1] for grammar specification is a case in point.
[0] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax-highlight-guide https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax...
- 0des 4y agoAs much as I dislike most electron apps, I do have a degree of respect toward Atom for bringing it to the community due to how many projects it enabled to have a gui that otherwise wouldn't have had one, or wouldn't have been made as accessible.