I don't think there's a great deal to worry about with regards to Atom in the short term. It's open source, whoever wants to work on it will keeping working on it.
I also don't imagine MS owned GitHub will torch the project (i.e. close its source, remove it entirely or apply some BS license). Instead, they'll just invest in VSCode, porting over the stuff that makes sense from Atom and continue to build a great editor.
Whether Atom survives in the long term is largely up to the community that supports it. It's unlikely that it's going to be receive direct investment now, so it'll have to find a new way to swim. Or sink.
What's interesting to me is that I see VSCode as the superior editor anyway (it took me a good long time to form that opinion too), so MS purchasing GitHub changes very little about the trajectories of these tools in my mind.
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I don't think there's a great deal to worry about with regards to Atom in the short term. It's open source, whoever wants to work on it will keeping working on it.
I also don't imagine MS owned GitHub will torch the project (i.e. close its source, remove it entirely or apply some BS license). Instead, they'll just invest in VSCode, porting over the stuff that makes sense from Atom and continue to build a great editor.
Whether Atom survives in the long term is largely up to the community that supports it. It's unlikely that it's going to be receive direct investment now, so it'll have to find a new way to swim. Or sink.
What's interesting to me is that I see VSCode as the superior editor anyway (it took me a good long time to form that opinion too), so MS purchasing GitHub changes very little about the trajectories of these tools in my mind.