Atom is dead now. Starting today, Atom is dead. Probably the editor that had most personality ever – I mean, look at the 1.0 announcement!. But with all things Microsoft does, one thing they know how to do REALLY well is – marketing. Microsoft was able to convince the world Read more…
So, Microsoft blogger decided to post about “sunsetting Atom”.
Honestly it’s an amazing euphemism for “for killing Atom” so I’m not going to bother to sweet-coat anything: in fact this post will probably have some harsh words, so if you like Microsoft (for some reason) I advise you to stop reading…
Anyway: Microsoft is a shitty piece of crap company. They committed so many crimes and the reason why they didn’t answer for most of these is because they bought the lawyers that were accusing them. When they they posted that they are going to Sunset Atom, it sounded like an inevitable thing – Atom was stalled, so they’re going to archive the repositories and if someone wants to keep using this just fork it and keep developing the editor.
But the truth is – not even this is possible. And we’re going to find out why in a moment, but first a little bit of story:
Even though Microsoft told everybody that they were going to keep developing the editor, it is strange that years later they decided to just give up on the idea. But this decision was not rushed in any way – they were planning to do that for a long time!
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So… my last post was somewhat sad – I tell about how impossible is to keep the Atom editor. Unfortunately, it still holds true – it’s close to impossible to handle the insane amount of code that Atom have.
But maybe is there a different way? So I decided to try: presenting, Project Saturn: a huge editor, but less dense. That’s the idea.
Saturn always fascinated me, and still fascinates: it’s a huge planet, but less dense than water. With a sufficient big bowl of water, Saturn would float. That’s precisely the idea I want in this new editor: to be less dense to keep, while somehow maintaining the power and “wow factor” of the editor. So, how to do it?
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This is a quick post about an incredible plug-in that I found today that makes VSCode and VIM Mode work better. Not perfect, but better. First of, start by using VSCodium. Stay away from VSCode if you can. There’s not much more that I can tell instead of “shady practices, Read more…