OT: Sunsetting Atom

There are a few things in this thread..

To anyone reading Ben's post - Wappler and Atom are two very different things, That is just Ben's footnote. Adobe forums just do not make a persons post footer very clear 😞
Wappler is a web builder tool while Atom is a coding IDE. (Code application)

No one covered the reason why MS would be shutting Atom either and not listing MS's coding app.

Atom going away was ALWAYS on the cards.
Back story:
Atom is one of the modern light weight, plugin based, often HTML5, node.js, Typescript... ETC built coding IDE's which offer cross platform, cross language development with great functionality. More to it but keeping it short. How they are designed, UX and function. Basically for modern development moving away finally from a lot of out dated thinking in this area.
While a few were in development one guy behind Sublime Text I think really was the key to the evolution here. That plus an Adobe team with an open source (Which is unusual for Adobe) project with Brackets really kicked things off.

Lots of similar followed from that but Adobe although being right there with the evolution pulled back on Brackets even though it initlally appered as an app in the Adobe Cloud.
Git eventually followed with Atom which was solid but I, like many thought it was a bit slow on updates but had A LOT of promise and the integration with GIT itself and what it was heading to with the AI work they were doing.

Microsoft had a team in the EU who created Visual Studio Code.
I am not sure why this has not been mentioned because it is basically the most popular tool, has the most plugin support, great updated, great customisationa, solid and cross platform - It's the go to for many.

Because Visual Studio Code exists, has a great up take, Atom's life was always going to end when Microsoft bought GIT. Why would you keep it going? It does not make any sense on a lot of levels.
VSC has massive support. You can see a success on the number of plugins it has and there is something for every language and solution across every platform.
Atom is nice but it has not seen its userbase grow but decline and many of its features there were NOT in Visual Studio Code at the time of purchase are already in Visual Studio Code. That is its other key - the updates and the community suggestions program which make regular updates is extensive.
The team behing it are really good and the platform is solid PLUS ITS FREE!

Most of the other IDE's mentioned here are actually out dated and not any of the ones people actually using.
Nova should have been great and I was a massive CODA user for a LONG TIME but its too bloated and UI was pushed way too far 😞

Yes, I read that the other day........humm.

That was always going to be the case despite Microsoft delaying the cull for 4 years and avoiding such rumours circulating at the time.

Gone are the days when this market was competitive. Once a free editor, which let's face it is superior to any other free or paid for editor in the medium market place comes along it kills competition from smaller companies. I'm totally surprised Nova from Panic eventually saw the light of day.  There's not many new 'coding' editors these days. I think JetBrains is working on somethimg similar to VS Code but its probably going to be a paid for editor, if it eventually goes wild.

I was thinking a few days ago when reading about the demise of Atom what web-editors have come and gone in my time as a web-developer: I'll kick off the list, mainly Mac editors:

1. Coda (Mac) ) (Morphed into Nova)

2. Textmate (Mac)

3. Chocolate (Mac)

4. Espresso (Mac) (Although I believe that may still be on life support. There was talk of a beta 6 version some months ago)

5. Zend Studio

6. Atom

7. Dreamweaver (I think we can count that)

8. Brackets

9. Light Table

10. Aptana

11. Komodo Edit (I dont think that is being developed any longer)

12 Go Live (CyberStudio) (My first ever editor)