[yepthatsreality]

Because more than one editor based off of Electron can exist and something doesn’t have to cease just because the sheep moved to the next field.

Why does Visual Studio still exist?

Why does Sublime Text still exist?

Why does Notepad++ still exist?

[saagarjha]

The question was asked because Atom doesn’t seem to see much development effort anymore, while the rest of the things you mentioned do.

[yepthatsreality]

So we should rid it from existence? Or is this a suggestion to delete the repository?

Does Atom exist if you never need it again or the project is never maintained?

[nexuist]

I don't think we should get rid of Atom or anything like that, the point of my question is why the Atom contributors chose to not move on to VSC and continue to maintain Atom to the point of launching competing cloud options like Teletype. It's weird because both ventures are ultimately owned by Microsoft so it's confusing why they're paying two sets of developers to compete against each other.

[yepthatsreality]

Atom/GitHub wasn’t owned by Microsoft when Visual Studio Code gained traction. I’m guessing that the maintainers had no interest in giving Microsoft more help in reducing Atom to an unmaintained status and promoting Visual Studio Code for free. If the maintainers work for Microsoft now, I highly doubt it was ever a choice to move on. Teletype was probably in progress as well pre-acquisition, as that sort of feature came much much later in Visual Studio Codes development.