“When we formally introduced Atom in 2014, we set out to give developers a text editor that was deeply customizable but also easy to use-one that made it possible for more people to build software,” the company writes in a blog post. GitHub is now throwing its weight behind VS Code. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and the latter has been aggressively pushing its own VS Code. The app quickly became popular among developers for its extensible nature and cross-platform design.

GitHub first introduced Atom in 2014, with the app serving as the foundation of the Electron framework. I can't say the same for VSCode.GitHub has announced it is “sunsetting,” aka killing off, its popular Atom text editor with a view to replacing it with Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code). It is written in a low level language and is insanely stable and low on resources. If I am going to use a text editor it will be sublime text or something similar. I personally still use Sublime Text to edit text, but I use my IDE for projects. Honestly I think people aren't thinking clearly. I would do pair programming with them and most the time their IDE couldn't do basic things that my IDE could. I worked with a ton of developers that thought VS Code was the best and everyone used it. 'Text Editors' are marketed as a 'light' option, but the amount of memory VSCode takes and processing it isn't any lighter than a full IDE, so what is the point in using something you have to setup when you can spend 5 bucks and have something perfectly setup for your specific development stack like Jetbrains IDEs. It also requires a lot of research and setup time. To be honest it is a disorganized mess in term of features and often times they don't work very well. I think people are a little stupid for VSCode.

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