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Comment by jrs95

8 years ago

I had forgotten about the Atom and VS Code angle of this. I wonder if MS will deprecate Atom in favor of VS Code now...

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tomxor  8 years ago

They can't "depreciate" an OSS project just because it's hosted on a platform they own. Atom will live on one way or another, and it was never exactly tied at the hip with GitHub anyway.

  • jrs95  8 years ago

    Well, they can stop paying people to work on it and divorce GitHub from it entirely. I’m sure it would still available and worked on though.

7ewis  8 years ago

Forgot about that too.

Atom is open source though isn't it? So I'm sure it won't ever disappear. I wouldn't want to move to VS Code though. I use a Mac and have heard good things about it, but I'm sure it will always be a second class citizen.

  • mjrbrennan  8 years ago

    VS Code is ridiculously good, far better than Atom in all areas. I moved from Atom to VS Code on the Mac ~1.5 years ago and have never looked back.

  • jrs95  8 years ago

    VS Code is actually nearly identical on all platforms just like Atom. I find Atom generally has more available plugins, but VS Code can’t be beat for TypeScript imo.