Perf became the biggest problem however, which VSCode took over.
I also think the sibling comment is right; TextMate never had the huge collection of plugins later editors did, but you can very much see the seeds of Sublime Text's package system in it, and Sublime is a very obvious influence on Atom/Code. (Although they were smart to have package management fully integrated; Sublime's package management system is a bit clunky by comparison.)
You can also customize Atom easier than VsCode. Why even build on web technologies if you don't let your users change things. For instance you have to have an extension to custom load CSS and it's kind of a hassle. Heck even Sublime has an easier interface to change the text editor in real time. You don't really need to do much as it already looks good though.
fwiw I use Linux and suspect that's a big part of why Macs never appealed to me.
Let me introduce you to Emacs, vim, Sublime, TextMate, ...
Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve. And turning them into full blown IDEs makes their usage even more complex.
> Sublime
Sadly, Sublime is sort of dead.
> TextMate
TextMate: Text editor for macOS
Sublime has ongoing development on https://www.sublimetext.com/dev and the last major release (4) was just about a year ago.
That's not the point, we were talking about plugins.
In Emacs/Vim I can't even escape the program if I don't know a keyboard shortcut.
In Vscode even if I forgot Cmd+W/Q I can simply click the close button. Not to mention that all the shortcuts are just globally used shortcuts in all the other software.
While I respect praising by the community of Vim/Emacs, I really don't think it's beginner-friendly.
So anyone starting a software career virtually picks Vscode, gets used to it, and almost has no reason to switch to something else for now unless they need something extremely specific.
have you seen the extent of available emacs packages? maybe it is a learning curve for a person who just learned how to power on a computer but i find emacs soo much more approachable
Atom was made to be infinitely customizable by using web technology. You can dynamically change everything you want with custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Nothing is off limits. Want to shrink the size of the tabs? Just throw in some CSS, everything is changeable.
Code on the other hand runs plug-ins in a separate isolated thread where they are left to communicate with the editor through an extension API. Every customization "hook" that a plugin has access to needs to be explicitly added in that extension API. The things that the devs didn't think (or want) to add are simply impossible. Want to shrink the size of the tabs? Tough luck (except for unsupported hacks).
Code is awesome, but I think Atom should get more credit for what it tried to do. It is arguably the most customizable text editor ever.
What I, and almost everyone else wants is extensions which provide real utility like language packs, linters, git tools, etc. All of this works well on VS code.
I actually use VS Code as well, but more like an IDE with tons of extensions, and Sublime is my 'basic' text editor.
