GitHub is 'sunsetting' the Atom text editor later this year. No further development on the app is planned, and encourages users to seek out alternatives.

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GitHub’s Atom text editor is being discontinued. GitHub says it has decided to ‘retire Atom in order to further our commitment to bringing fast and reliable software development to the cloud’ Microsoft has its own Electron-based coding-come-text-editor in VSCode.

GitHub Axes Atom Text Editor, Recommends VSCode Instead

To be brutally honest, I had already forgotten that Atom was a thing. Not that it was bad, I just assumed it was dead a long time ago.

There are too many things in the same, it’s time to converge

I am surprised it lasted this much, never was a big fan of Atom, nevertheless it was great, to spark competition among electron IDEs I guess so it had its use.