Comment by emigre
The Atom code editor. It was good to have a mainstream alternative to VS Code, it's a pity it reached end-of-life.
The Atom code editor. It was good to have a mainstream alternative to VS Code, it's a pity it reached end-of-life.
iirc Atom was the original Electron project. Eventually VS Code came along and took all the good ideas - the modularity through extensions, and Electron / web based cross platform, but made it really fast and added IDE like language support through LSP. Atom may be dead now, but the idea lives on in VS Code and the new project by the original developers of Atom: Zed
Electron was originally named Atom Shell https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron/
Atom Shell/Electron was from the very beginning something you could use separately from Atom as a framework for creating desktop apps using Chromium/Node.js.
Atom was by GitHub, and VS Code by Microsoft. As soon as Microsoft bought VS Code, Atom’s fate was sealed.