![]() ![]() Going forward, the company plans to focus on improving its cloud-based development solution GitHub Codespaces, which integrates Visual Studio Code. However, the usage of Atom is around 13 percent. The Stack Overflow developer survey conducted last year indicates that Atom is used by 71 percent of web developers. It certainly isn’t surprising that GitHub is sunsetting Atom, given that VS Code has become a popular tool for developers. GitHub to shift focus on Visual Studio Code As a result, the open-source project has only received maintenance and security updates during the past few months. GitHub notes that there has been a significant decline in Atom’s community involvement, and the software now appears less appealing as compared to other cloud-based services. Electron influenced the development of some popular commercial applications such as Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Visual Studio Code (VS Code). The company detailed in a blog post that it’s planning to archive the Atom repository and all other relevant repositories on December 15, 2022, in favor of the new Visual Studio Code.įor those unfamiliar, Atom is a cross-platform code editor that laid the foundation for the Electron framework. Microsoft-owned GitHub is getting ready to retire Atom, an open-source text editor that debuted in 2011.
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