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0 pointsjw143y ago0 comments

I checked back regularly for years to look for signs of life in Atom. There weren't any.

Last blog? 2019.

None of the releases did anything interesting. I work in Vue.js and needed that toolchain to work well, it never did with Atom.

So they're blaming the community for something they decided years ago and kept deciding every week when no resources were allocated.

Also, Zed isn't filling the void Atom left. Rust is interesting. Collaborative editing, not so much. Electron's lack of speed doesn't prevent VS code from fading into my workflow and being the most popular editor. I would still like an alternative because I don't think Microsoft should have the whole market.

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rattray3y ago

> I would still like an alternative because I don't think Microsoft should have the whole market.

Asking genuinely, why not Sublime Text? (I haven't tried it or Atom in several years, but used both back in the day).

jw14OP3y ago

I'm probably going to give Sublime another try.

For one, I'm finicky about colors and VS code makes it easy to tweak one or two colors of a theme without getting involved in forking and creating a whole new theme. I may just do it, though.

Also, I recall having some issues getting linting to work and the editor highlighting lint errors in not-very-visible ways (like the first character of the line had a red underline).

Again, it's been a while and these could be issues I had with ST3 and/or I missed the way to fix it.

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