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The Atom code editor. It was good to have a mainstream alternative to VS Code, it's a pity it reached end-of-life.
by emigre 1y ago
The Atom code editor. It was good to have a mainstream alternative to VS Code, it's a pity it reached end-of-life.
- _bent 1y agoiirc Atom was the original Electron project. Eventually VS Code came along and took all the good ideas - the modularity through extensions, and Electron / web based cross platform, but made it really fast and added IDE like language support through LSP. Atom may be dead now, but the idea lives on in VS Code and the new project by the original developers of Atom: Zed
- latexr 1y ago> iirc Atom was the original Electron project. Indeed (and the names are a clue). More specifically, Electron came out of the ideas in Atom, not the other way around.
- gimenete 1y agoElectron was originally named Atom Shell https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron/ https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron/ Atom Shell/Electron was from the very beginning something you could use separately from Atom as a framework for creating desktop apps using Chromium/Node.js.
- latexr 1y agoYou’re right, I misremembered that. Thank you for the correction.
- latexr 1y agoAtom was by GitHub, and VS Code by Microsoft. As soon as Microsoft bought VS Code, Atom’s fate was sealed.
- latexr 1y ago> As soon as Microsoft bought VS Code Correction: I meant “As soon as Microsoft bought GitHub”.
- kstrauser 1y agoThe creators went on to make Zed.
- cymor 1y agoCheckout Zed or Pulsar. Made by people who worked on Atom.