Comment by _bent
1 day ago
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
> iirc Atom was the original Electron project.
Indeed (and the names are a clue). More specifically, Electron came out of the ideas in Atom, not the other way around.
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.
You’re right, I misremembered that. Thank you for the correction.