[locofocos]

I'm a happy user of Atom as my daily driver for basic note taking and scratch pads. Even though it's being sunset, I look forward to using it for years to come.

Perhaps it will have a good fork one day, but honestly it works great as-is. Sometimes software reaches a point where it just works, and you appreciate not having a team that wants to change everything.

[p-e-w]

> Even though it's being sunset, I look forward to using it for years to come.

I'd be very, very careful with that. My understanding is that Atom will no longer receive any updates, including security updates. Atom has had a remote code execution vulnerability in the past that could be triggered by simply opening a package readme IIRC.

Atom is deeply integrated with the browser/Node.js ecosystem, and as such using a stale version sounds potentially very dangerous. I sincerely wish it was different, and that we could just continue using unmaintained applications as long as they "work", but that is sadly not the state of software today.

[manbart]

There’s already an attempt to keep it going

https://pulsar-edit.dev/

[krunck]

Today they just announced V1.0 of their backend: "This Backend Server supports all documented and undocumented endpoints that were originally available on Atom, and should support all interactions with APM, PPM the Atom application, the Pulsar application, and any other unknown 3rd party services that integrated with the backend. Essentially it should look like nothing has changed."

https://github.com/pulsar-edit/package-backend/releases/tag/...

So that's progress.

[gnramires]

If you're on Linux, I recommend Geany as an alternative (also has autosave, etc.). Also my favorite IDE at the moment.