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The end of a love story, after 11 years together. Atom :-(

Mattia Orfano on July 19, 2022

It's been 11 amazing years with ups and downs, where we enjoyed each other's company and had a lot of fun facing together new experiences. And now...
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Richard Guay • Edited

Well, I’ve used VSCode, Sublime, Emacs with DoomEmacs setup, Bracket, Atom, and OniVim. I still use OniVim when I want a windowed editor, but I’m mostly using NeoVim with the Lunar configuration. The vim emulation in VSCode, Sublime, and Emacs was not to par with what I like about NeoVim. It starts up in less than 1 second and is ready to roll!

But, I really love the TextPastry extension for Sublime that I sometimes still use when I need to do that type of editing. I haven’t really found a simular workflow in NeoVim yet, but I’m still looking.

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Dima

Vetur => Volar

Volar replaces Vetur, our previous official VSCode extension for Vue 2. If you have Vetur currently installed, make sure to disable it in Vue 3 projects.

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Mattia Orfano

oh, thank you! I'm working with Vue3, so definitely appreciated ;)

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William Squibb

I'm not going to switch from atom. It can try to push me off with update that disables things. I won't care. I have an installation of it in an offline VM so if I have to I just copy over the installation files.

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Mattia Orfano

I might be wrong, but with Emacs you need extra configurations to make ESlint and other features to work. I wanted a smooth experience

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Elsa Gonsiorowski

Try Emacs! In development since the 70’s, free and open software is more reliable than trusting a company to keep making free stuff for you.

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Medea

Really nice title

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mikeyGlitz

I would recommend VSCodium. You get VS Code, but without all of the Microsoft tracking.

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Mattia Orfano

interesting!

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Bukunmi Ransome-kuti

Great article. I started development with Atom after various online comparisons. The notable pros was its simplicity and extensibility. Somewhere along the line, I convinced myself that VSCode will be better for my productivity.
Haven't been disappointed

+1 for Vue ;)
You might want to check out Vue DevTools

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Mattia Orfano

thank you ;) I will check it out!

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Medea

I used to use repl.it a lot, but then I wanted my code to be private so I tried VSCode and Pycharm.
I really liked Pycharm so I'm currently using that.

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Ashish Khare😎

How fast you'd changed!
~Atom

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

SublimeText all the way. VSCode is a bloated, slow rip-off of it

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Mattia Orfano

I have it also, it's nice and smooth... but for some reason I don't like it.
It seems too basic to my needs. I dont' know :)

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Basic? It's every bit as extendable and customisable as VSCode

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Mattia Orfano

challenge accepted. I will try it for 30days and will publish a comparison article in the upcoming months ;)

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Dendi Handian

did you use Atom keybinding extension when transitioning to VS Code?

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Mattia Orfano

no, I just adapted to the new configuration

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Andrew Baisden

Wow, this is news to me I did not know they were shutting it down. It used to be my main code editor for a long time but now I'm a full VSCode convert. Sublime would be my second choice.

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Matias Rodriguez

We really are living in dark and sad times :(

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Caleb Albritton • Edited

I'm not sure this is possible as Atom wasn't released until 2014, and didn't make it out of beta until 2015.