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The end of a love story, after 11 years together. Atom :-(

Mattia Orfano on July 19, 2022

It's been 11 amazing years with ups and downs, where we enjoyed each other's company and had a lot of fun facing together new experiences. And now...

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Richard Guay • Jul 20 '22 • Edited

Well, I’ve used VSCode, Sublime, Emacs with DoomEmacs setup, Bracket, Atom, and OniVim. I still use OniVim when I want a windowed editor, but I’m mostly using NeoVim with the Lunar configuration. The vim emulation in VSCode, Sublime, and Emacs was not to par with what I like about NeoVim. It starts up in less than 1 second and is ready to roll!

But, I really love the TextPastry extension for Sublime that I sometimes still use when I need to do that type of editing. I haven’t really found a simular workflow in NeoVim yet, but I’m still looking.

Dima • Jul 20 '22

Vetur => Volar

Volar replaces Vetur, our previous official VSCode extension for Vue 2. If you have Vetur currently installed, make sure to disable it in Vue 3 projects.

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Mattia Orfano • Jul 20 '22

oh, thank you! I'm working with Vue3, so definitely appreciated ;)

William Squibb • Jul 21 '22

I'm not going to switch from atom. It can try to push me off with update that disables things. I won't care. I have an installation of it in an offline VM so if I have to I just copy over the installation files.

Mattia Orfano • Jul 20 '22

I might be wrong, but with Emacs you need extra configurations to make ESlint and other features to work. I wanted a smooth experience

Elsa Gonsiorowski • Jul 20 '22

Try Emacs! In development since the 70’s, free and open software is more reliable than trusting a company to keep making free stuff for you.

Medea • Jul 19 '22

Really nice title

mikeyGlitz • Jul 19 '22

I would recommend VSCodium. You get VS Code, but without all of the Microsoft tracking.

Mattia Orfano • Jul 20 '22

interesting!

Bukunmi Ransome-kuti • Jul 23 '22

Great article. I started development with Atom after various online comparisons. The notable pros was its simplicity and extensibility. Somewhere along the line, I convinced myself that VSCode will be better for my productivity.
Haven't been disappointed

+1 for Vue ;)
You might want to check out Vue DevTools

Mattia Orfano • Jul 25 '22

thank you ;) I will check it out!

Medea • Jul 19 '22

I used to use repl.it a lot, but then I wanted my code to be private so I tried VSCode and Pycharm.
I really liked Pycharm so I'm currently using that.

Matias Rodriguez • Aug 4 '22

We really are living in dark and sad times :(

Ashish Khare😎 • Aug 2 '22

How fast you'd changed!
~Atom

Caleb Albritton • Jul 25 '22 • Edited

I'm not sure this is possible as Atom wasn't released until 2014, and didn't make it out of beta until 2015.

Andrew Baisden • Jul 23 '22

Wow, this is news to me I did not know they were shutting it down. It used to be my main code editor for a long time but now I'm a full VSCode convert. Sublime would be my second choice.