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Guess Atom is getting the axe then

Atom has been leagues behind VS Code for a quite a while. Even with an acquisition I don’t see it ever winning that fight. Too much baggage in the underlying architecture.

They were trying: https://github.com/atom/xray/

I wonder if they'll finish it.

Yup, Microsoft bought Github for 7.5B to shoot Atom into the sun.

That's not anywhere close to what parent said, so what's the point of this comment?

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