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

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Nick Taylor

I used Atom briefly and Sublime, but for the most part, I was on VS Code since the very early days. Even before you could add extensions to VS Code! The main reason being was we were working with TypeScript (TS) all the way back in Fall 2014 and at the time, VS Code was the editor with the best support for TS.

Having said that, VS Code implemented a lot of similar functionality as Sublime/Atom and it's just gotten better and better each release.

I would deem Atom a success pre-MS GitHub acquisition. I imagine they could keep two competing products, but it'd probably make sense to put all their efforts into one editor, and that would probably be VS Code.