<story><title>Sunsetting Atom</title><url>https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frostwarrior</author><text>&amp;gt; Emacs, vim&lt;p&gt;Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve. And turning them into full blown IDEs makes their usage even more complex.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Sublime&lt;p&gt;Sadly, Sublime is sort of dead.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; TextMate&lt;p&gt;TextMate: Text editor for macOS</text></item><item><author>shakow</author><text>&amp;gt; Atom practically invented the kind of extensions that VSCode had&lt;p&gt;Let me introduce you to Emacs, vim, Sublime, TextMate, ...</text></item><item><author>quaunaut</author><text>Atom practically invented the kind of extensions that VSCode had, and even several years into VSCode&amp;#x27;s life Atom far outstripped it in Extensions.&lt;p&gt;Perf became the biggest problem however, which VSCode took over.</text></item><item><author>aniforprez</author><text>IMO the killer thing that VSCode has over all the other editors is the wealth of extensions and a certain degree of simplicity. What are your plans for Zed in terms of extensibility and are you aligning more towards making something beefy and full-featured like the IntelliJ offerings or something more &amp;quot;lightweight&amp;quot; like VSCode or Sublime?</text></item><item><author>nathansobo</author><text>Founder of Atom here. We&amp;#x27;re building the spiritual successor to Atom over at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zed.dev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zed.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;We learned a lot with Atom and had a great time, but it always fell short of our vision. With Zed we&amp;#x27;re going to get it right. Written in Rust, custom native UI framework, engineered to be collaborative. Just starting our private alpha this week, so the timing of this announcement feels quite fitting.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a talk I gave last month: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;wXT73bBr83s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;wXT73bBr83s&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nh2</author><text>&amp;gt; Sadly, Sublime is sort of dead.&lt;p&gt;Sublime has ongoing development on &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sublimetext.com&amp;#x2F;dev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sublimetext.com&amp;#x2F;dev&lt;/a&gt; and the last major release (4) was just about a year ago.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sunsetting Atom</title><url>https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frostwarrior</author><text>&amp;gt; Emacs, vim&lt;p&gt;Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve. And turning them into full blown IDEs makes their usage even more complex.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Sublime&lt;p&gt;Sadly, Sublime is sort of dead.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; TextMate&lt;p&gt;TextMate: Text editor for macOS</text></item><item><author>shakow</author><text>&amp;gt; Atom practically invented the kind of extensions that VSCode had&lt;p&gt;Let me introduce you to Emacs, vim, Sublime, TextMate, ...</text></item><item><author>quaunaut</author><text>Atom practically invented the kind of extensions that VSCode had, and even several years into VSCode&amp;#x27;s life Atom far outstripped it in Extensions.&lt;p&gt;Perf became the biggest problem however, which VSCode took over.</text></item><item><author>aniforprez</author><text>IMO the killer thing that VSCode has over all the other editors is the wealth of extensions and a certain degree of simplicity. What are your plans for Zed in terms of extensibility and are you aligning more towards making something beefy and full-featured like the IntelliJ offerings or something more &amp;quot;lightweight&amp;quot; like VSCode or Sublime?</text></item><item><author>nathansobo</author><text>Founder of Atom here. We&amp;#x27;re building the spiritual successor to Atom over at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zed.dev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zed.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;We learned a lot with Atom and had a great time, but it always fell short of our vision. With Zed we&amp;#x27;re going to get it right. Written in Rust, custom native UI framework, engineered to be collaborative. Just starting our private alpha this week, so the timing of this announcement feels quite fitting.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a talk I gave last month: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;wXT73bBr83s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;wXT73bBr83s&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boredtofears</author><text>Sublime is very much not dead. It&amp;#x27;s still much faster than vscode or any other heavyweight IDE.</text></comment>