With Microsoft shortly bringing the axe to Atom, in favor of their in-house VS Code, that leaves a lot of people wondering what's next? There is a reincarnation, however!<p>Much like how MariaDB came from the ashes of Oracle's MySQL squash, and we now have Rocky from IBM/Redhat nerfing CentOS, soon we should have pulsar from Microsoft's similar attempt to squeeze an OSS project into oblivion.<p>Love it or hate it, Atom is a popular OSS editor with many great features, and having it continue as Pulsar is great for the community.<p>Keep an eye on https://pulsar-edit.dev for the new release (not yet ready).<p>The project team would like more time to polish things up, but I also think it's good for people to recognize the effort is underway.<p>Like any OSS project, they could use additional help.<p>Note: I'm not a part of the project, I'm just a fan of the editor who is excited to see it continue. So let those naysayers know that, in traditional OSS fashion, the big corporation's attempt to kill it in lieu of their in-house product will not succeed.<p>And there are many posts and blogs asserting that it IS dead, so I'd like to get the correct word out there.
Good luck to whoever is working on it but if the original devs couldn't keep it alive because of VSC, I don't think anyone else will.<p>I think both editors play in the same league and VSC has the community which is was matters.
I'm done with these slow editors. Switched to Sublime from VsCode a month ago. Much more responsive.<p>(Still use the bloated Jetbrains for editing projects, but its functionality is regrettably unrivaled.)