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The End of Atom

Steve Yonkeu on June 11, 2022

Developers keep on doing it great and breaking through different levels everyday, with their logic , algorithm and code, all together with an IDE o...
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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

I am using Sublime text 3

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Steve Yonkeu

That's pretty awesome ๐Ÿ˜Š! You might want to get into open source if you're not. Very important stuffs.

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Yes I am already contributing to open source

Check out my projects ๐Ÿ˜‡
atulcodex

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Steve Yonkeu

That's super awesome guy. Will be looking forward to ๐ŸŒŸ some repositories ๐Ÿ˜Š, Check mine too, contributing to projects like:

  • UNICEF inventory
  • Chaoss
  • Argur
  • Flutter projects
  • Django
  • ML and AI

I'm Yokwejuste. Check me on LinkedIn, Twitter and GitHub.

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Ok why not

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Husen

Sublime Text already has version 4. May I know why you didn't upgrade?

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Steve Yonkeu • Edited

As advise I'll say an upgrade is not always the best solution. I don't know if you know of Linux distros. Then you should have heard of ubuntu, and it most recent update the 22.04 JellyFish which is built on WayLand which blocks some apps such as Plank Gnome Extension.

As conclusion all upgrades should be under the user awareness of the pros and cons of it. Check the Sublime Text Forum on these upgrade version.

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

exactly

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Yeah because I am feeling lazy ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Randall

I used to use Atom so this is a little sad to me.

Before that I used Sublime.

The first text editor I used for programming was Nodepad++ if I remember right. Still good software going strong, though there are almost always better choices for programming these days.

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Sergey Pozhilov

Check out IntelliJ products, I switched to phpstorm a couple years ago and can say that was the best decision I ever made about my tooling. Have to admit though, there's no free versionsot IJ software

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Stijn de Ligt

I started on Atom but switched to VScode at some point. The two are eerily similar, but VScode has more plugins nowadays and better built in Typescript support.

If you use Atom now and are looking for a replacement, VSCode is pretty much the spiritual successor.

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Steve Yonkeu

๐Ÿ˜…Codespace is freaky nice too. Nothing never made better after Replit.

At least we have a successor.

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Krypton • Edited

Below are some of the mostly used IDE in 2022:
[...]

  • JetBrains IDE: made for all.

I wouldn't consider JetBrains as being an IDE. It's a software vendor providing multiple IDEs based on the language you're coding in. JetBrains is not an IDE.
I would also mention that compared to the others, lots of them require a license.

Personally I used Atom in the past but quickly moved to JetBrains' IDEs. Currently using Fleet.

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Steve Yonkeu

WTF! mehn how did you got fleet, have being trying to get this but unfortunately not till now

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Krypton

Takes time, I've applied for it the day it got announced ๐Ÿ˜Œ

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Steve Yonkeu

Ohh Till today my request hasn't been answered. It such a mess ๐Ÿ˜ข

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Doug Elkin

It's sad to see Atom go, but even more so to see it almost unmaintained for so long. It was the original Electron-based app, and seemed promising when it first came out. It aimed to be a "hackable editor for the 21st century" and the community packages were excellent (despite CoffeeScript, pre-es6 support). Before Microsoft bought GitHub, they made VSCode. It was also based on Electron, but somehow managed to get much better performance when working with large files. I really wanted Atom to improve, but it just never caught up.

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Steve Yonkeu

The guys didn't succeed to go forward with their team development. Sort of misunderstanding. ๐Ÿ˜ข

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Dendi Handian

My history of Code Editor:

  1. Notepad++
  2. SublimeText
  3. Atom
  4. VisualStudioCode (with Atom keybinding)
  5. VisualStudioCode
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Steve Yonkeu

What an amazing story @dendihandian ๐Ÿ˜….

Mine looks like:

  • Atom
  • Sublime Text
  • Vscode
  • Pycharm, Webstorm, PhpStorm, CLion, Android Studio and DataSpell
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Gustavo Vera Scuderi

I'm for some reason getting a little disenchanted with Windows and Microsoft, and I'd like to try something new. I work on different languages, so VS Code was good for me, but since I can get WebStorm, PHPStorm, RubyMine and DataGrip I was considering testing them for a while.

If you may, can you sell me on them? Since I see you also migrated from VS Code.

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Massimo Artizzu

I've switched to VS Code for a while, when it was clear it was becoming a way better and faster IDE.

I was fond of Atom but basically everything was eventually better in Code.

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fitzedin

that atom.io link is broken..

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Steve Yonkeu

I guess it should be a network error. The link is still available. Only thing that's not or will not be soon is the production team of this.

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N.H

Atom or vs code ?๐Ÿค”

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Steve Yonkeu

Vscode makes more sense!

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abstractumx

VScode and you sleep well ๐Ÿ˜„

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Steve Yonkeu

Thanks guy! ๐Ÿ˜„

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KenjiDoom

RIP atom will always have a special place in my heart.

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Steve Yonkeu

๐Ÿ˜…That super awesome beginners friendly text editor. I like that ๐Ÿค—.

First text editor i used. I'll always miss you.

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Steve Yonkeu

Hopefully thy will correct their mistakes