Sad to see this go. I was an early adopter of Atom, and I wrote two extensions for it, one of which while it was still in beta.
The Atom developers made some technology choices that in retrospect were ill-advised, CoffeeScript being the worst of them and splitting everything into dozens of packages a close second. They tried to backpedal on both of these later on, but by that time VSCode, with its far superior engineering built around TypeScript, was rapidly taking over.
Of course, the GitHub acquisition was the last straw, but to be fair Atom was already pretty dead by then.
While the Atom project ultimately failed, it did give us Electron and Tree-Sitter, two technologies that will certainly outlive it.
The Atom developers made some technology choices that in retrospect were ill-advised, CoffeeScript being the worst of them and splitting everything into dozens of packages a close second. They tried to backpedal on both of these later on, but by that time VSCode, with its far superior engineering built around TypeScript, was rapidly taking over.
Of course, the GitHub acquisition was the last straw, but to be fair Atom was already pretty dead by then.
While the Atom project ultimately failed, it did give us Electron and Tree-Sitter, two technologies that will certainly outlive it.