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I can only imagine how the people at GitHub paid to work on Atom are feeling right now.

Microsoft hasn't been kind to them!

Pretty sure they haven't been paid to work on Atom since the acquisition: https://github.com/atom/atom/graphs/contributors

They killed Atom the day they took over - they haven't had the balls to say anything publicly, but just go look at the commit graphs in the Atom repos. Here's a summary: https://twitter.com/DuncanLock/status/1177747512905461760

Wow, I was okay with this until I saw the promise to keep Atom around.

That's...scummy.

Agree. And considering the size of this, they are executing a very well defined playbook. Sounds like a very successful company integration to me. Will be good for everyone.

The people at Github that used to be paid to work on Atom may be the ones that built this :)

Wouldn't be my guess, personally:

https://github.com/atom

yeah, not much action there. Vim gets much more action per day.

No, this is based on VS Code's Visual Studio Online: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/30/microsofts-visual-studio-o...

Sandstrom is suggesting the ex-Atom devs were pivoted to VS Code Online and contributed to this release.

Ah, that's obvious now!

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