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Discussion on: Is there a future for the Atom editor?

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Ajina Slater • Edited

My problem is that VSCode is incredibly hard to write plugins for. The plugin API is very narrow, and a lot of the things I want to do are just plain not allowed.

Atom is incredibly easy to use, and I've never had performance issues (besides the giant file thing..). When people say "it's bloated" what does that even mean??

My daily driver is NeoVim, but my new workplace pairs 100% and no one else uses VIM. I'm looking at the more "friendly" editors to aid in pairing. VSCode basically isn't extensible, Atom doesn't seem to get much love so I don't want to hitch my horse to that wagon..

Neither are acceptable options.