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Discussion on: Is there a future for the Atom editor?

 
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anpos231

Strangely enough I had the exact opposite experience.
I find Atom very clear and simple, on the one hand I have this very powerful editor that I can extend almost indefinitely, but at the same time it does exactly what I need it to do and nothing more.

I personally found VSCode very bloated - lot's of icons everywhere, for a person who get's easily distracted, it was a horrible experience.

I have to say that if Atom ever goes away, then I am going back to vim.

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Alessandro

Same experience. I prefer Atom.

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Brett Stevenson

I think my experience is probably skewed since I had spent a fair amount of time customizing Atom to my liking before exploring VSCode, but I found VSCode and it's extensions fairly difficult to configure compared to Atom.