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Atom is already effectively discontinued, no more eng happening from what I heard.

Still my favorite editor, so that’s sad to hear.

For those of you that have moved on from Atom, but didn’t go to VS Code, where did you end up? Sublime Text is probably where I’ll head (back to), but curious if there are other options people are happy with. Have tried VS Code multiple times, but it just feels kludgy to me.

I agree with you - the Atom UI/UX is much better than VSCode in lots of ways. I'm currently slowly getting used to the pain of VSCode and am about 80% VSCode & 20% Atom currently.

VSCode seems to be the next best option, with the most momentum, etc...

That momentum with VSCode is my concern. Will it just become a bloated, slow, resource pig that Visual Studio has been for years now?

Long live Atom!

Erm, I hate to break it to you, but VSCode and Atom are both Electron-based, so they're not exactly light on resources either... If you are going to have a whole browser engine running, I guess it makes sense to at least make a full-blown IDE out of it rather than a simpler editor (or a glorified chat app like Slack)

Atom is slowest editor I've ever used. Visual Studio would have to do pretty badly to reach that level. Atom is good in other ways. It's very extensible. But my cursor actually had noticeable lag.

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