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Yes, Atom was an earlier shot at building a Sublime competitor too. I don’t know how usage of Atom compared to Sublime, but within my friends and colleagues it
by jonwinstanley 9mo ago
Yes, Atom was an earlier shot at building a Sublime competitor too.
I don’t know how usage of Atom compared to Sublime, but within my friends and colleagues it was only when VS code got good that people started moving away from Sublime.
- fleebee 9mo agoI can only speak for $MY_JOB, but I'm pretty sure everyone was on Atom before VSC "got good". Atom had a good plugin ecosystem; what really drove the change was Atom's horrible performance issues whereas VSC was snappy and responsive. What I believe also influenced the shift was that at that point in time MS had accumulated a decent amount of developer trust by giving us TypeScript and later on by acquiring GitHub. They appeared to care and have the right vision for open source.
- jonwinstanley 9mo agoAhh ok, interesting. I bounced off atom immediately but VS code got me.