&gt;<i>And more people know JS than Python to hack on it</i><p>I wouldn&#x27;t call the proliferation of npm modules a good thing. I&#x27;d rather have Python programmers coding my editor plugins.<p>&gt;<i>And Github has a powerful marketing team and lots of resources to put behind Atom and its development.</i><p>Marketing sounds like reason to avoid a software. And all the resources didn&#x27;t manage to make it tolerably fast&#x2F;low on cpu those 2-3 years its out. Whereas at least VSC got that right.<p>&gt;<i>And ST doesn&#x27;t get updated too often.</i><p>Doesn&#x27;t need to, either.