[technojamin]

I've got to give Atom a lot of credit for laying the groundwork for VS Code, but I can't imagine ever going back to use it. I doubt this project will ever get the performance to an acceptable level, since it seems like that was never an architectural goal for Atom. VS Code proved that it was absolutely possible to have a performant editor written with web technologies, you just need to prioritize it from the start. That's true for any application, of course, but not something web developers are accustomed to (especially not a decade ago).

It made me a bit nostalgic trying it out again, though. I used Atom for about a year before switching to VS Code, and I remember the vibrant community around it. It definitely fulfilled it's goal of being hackable, since there were extensions that completely extended the UI in some pretty neat/silly ways.

[esafak]

There's https://zed.dev/ now

[SJMG]

Zed has a sweet sales pitch. Once they add extension support, I'll tune back in.

[llm_trw]

I'm old enough to have been told I should get off emacs and start using Atom because it's the future ^tm on here around 2016. Since then the only thing that's changed is that I'm using more responsive emacs configuration and I've figured out how to use shiftL and shiftR for `()'.

When people ask why you should use old software this is it. You learn it one and it runs forever.

[techbro92]

I definitely wouldn’t call vscode performant. The UI elements have noticeable latency and most things feel slow. Startup takes multiple seconds.