Atom was archived today
Sad to see this go. I was an early adopter of Atom, and I wrote two extensions for it, one of which while it was still in beta.<p>The Atom developers made some technology choices that in retrospect were ill-advised, CoffeeScript being the worst of them and splitting everything into dozens of packages a close second. They tried to backpedal on both of these later on, but by that time VSCode, with its far superior engineering built around TypeScript, was rapidly taking over.<p>Of course, the GitHub acquisition was the last straw, but to be fair Atom was already pretty dead by then.<p>While the Atom project ultimately failed, it did give us Electron and Tree-Sitter, two technologies that will certainly outlive it.