I didn’t use Atom much, but I think it’s obvious that the primary reason it died was because Microsoft decided to make their own competing editor, and then bought the parent company of Atom. It wasn’t exactly the most popular editor at the time, but it did still have some users.

Reminds me of how Adobe killed off FreeHand (the only competitor to Illustrator at the time) by buying the parent company and then halting development.

Of course, Microsoft likely gave zero shits about Atom as a competitive threat since it was effectively dead at the time anyways, but I still think it’s interesting to see the similarities to the Adobe situation.