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Somewhat unrelated but why dos Atom even exist anymore? MS should just fold the Atom team into VSCode and go full in on VSCode. From Microsoft's perspective, I don' see any reason for Atom to exist. It's not like Chromium vs Chrome where Google wants to ship an open-source project with some important proprietary bits and pieces.

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Why does vim exist anymore? Neovim exists and has more and newer features. We should just get rid of vim, and have Bram focus all his efforts on nvim instead.

Some of us don't like VS Code (for lots of reasons) but do like Atom. From Microsoft's perspective, they just bought a golden goose (GitHub) that can bring them a lot of developer goodwill. If they kill off that golden goose, they lose all the goodwill they just bought. Atom is a part of what GitHub stands for. It's a hackable editor for the 21st century. And when you're one of the richest companies on earth, you can afford to pay a few developers' salaries for a lot of goodwill.

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