Atom code editor has been archived.
03:19pm. The Atom code editor has been archived today and hence officially dead. I am seeing a lot of people online giving sympathy to Atom and giving reasons for why they moved to Visual Studio Code. Well, I believe none are good. I have memories of Atom because it was one of the first text editors I used for serious programming before that being a hobby with BASIC and FORTRAN. Atom was slow, bulky and I just could not bear to use it for C/C++ development. Now, VS Code is not any better. I have been using Emacs and tools from JetBrains for a few years now and they work much better, faster, smarter. In fact, JetBrains has launched a new IDE called Fleet which is in the process to replace VS Code. All who think VS Code is a good editor will curse it when Fleet becomes stable and comes prepared in the arena.