[sporedro]

I don’t know how to phrase this and it might be a bit of a ramble, but your reply is something I’ve been thinking about with atom. I personally hated eclipse, due to it feeling constantly like everything was it’s own package and not really working together, but recently was trying out emacs, and was quite impressed. Atoms philosophy sorta reminds me of the two where it’s “everything is an extension”.

I guess my question is, is how did this work out for it? I never gave atom a try, but did it feel like everything sorta worked together? Or was it more of a eclipse feeling where every package feels like it’s own separate object?

Vscode is a decent out of box experience but it’s custom ability is rather limited imo. Would love to give atom a try if this community version succeeds at all.

[WorldMaker]

> I guess my question is, is how did this work out for it? I never gave atom a try, but did it feel like everything sorta worked together? Or was it more of a eclipse feeling where every package feels like it’s own separate object?

The obvious short answer here is: it obviously didn't work out for Atom. It wasn't able to compete with VS Code in the general marketplace, many people who tried to use Atom thought it was slow and buggy (there are examples in other comments near here, such as dueling tooltips plugins), and then eventually GitHub and Microsoft decided to pool all their official resources into VS Code and sunset Atom.

Pulsar linked here is an attempt to preserve what's left of Atom's open source community and I wish them luck, but they are maybe going to need a lot of it with competition like VS Code. Though admittedly Eclipse is an interesting comparison here because Eclipse still lives on, after several times where people assumed Eclipse was over with and the competition clearly winning. Some big companies still use Eclipse for all sorts of reasons.

[petre]

It's working out fine and doesn't have all the visual annoyances and wheel scrolling issues that CS Code has. I use it since version 1.1. I tried VS Codium this week but reverted back to Atom after reading about the RCE and not being impressed with it. I also want an editor, not an IDE, no Git integration as I don't use Git. And yes, it is slower compared to VS Code. Next I'm going to give Emacs a shot.

[nsonha]

it's technically true that VSCode is less customizable but honestly who cares? Both of these editors are so minimal in their design that UI customization doesn't mean much.