[waitwhatt]

https://old.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman...

> I’m Nat Friedman, future CEO of GitHub. AMA.

> Atom is a fantastic editor with a healthy community, adoring fans, excellent design, and a promising foray into real-time collaboration. At Microsoft, we already use every editor from Atom to VS Code to Sublime to Vim, and we want developers to use any editor they prefer with GitHub.

> So we will continue to develop and support both Atom and VS Code going forward.

> So, I love the years of collaboration between Microsoft and GitHub that have produced these two beloved editors, and I expect this fruitful relationship to continue!

And... no you won't. You make decisions that weren't your's to make.

[asveikau]

I was at MS more than a decade ago, and I can attest that nobody cared what editor you used and there were people using everything.

Of course there were many problems at MS, but lack of religiosity about text editors was a bright point of their culture.