atom VS helix

I thought a lot of the Atom developers moved to create Pulsar Editor.

https://pulsar-edit.dev/

Also, the community forked Atom into a community edition (CE), still getting updates?

https://github.com/atom-community/atom/

What makes this "Atom Developer Editor" different than Pulsar or Atom-CE.

There's https://github.com/atom-community/atom, hoping that or similar will gain traction

A couple community maintained Atom forks have emerged: Atom Community and Pulsar. Of the two, Pulsar seems to be more actively developed.

Yes, I know Microsoft is archiving the Atom editor repo, but a public fork lives on. https://github.com/atom-community/atom/ atom-slime is probably still my favorite of the bunch. It actually uses Emacs SLIME. But I haven't looked at it in a couple years or longer.

Looks like the Atom community also started a fork of Atom a while back: https://github.com/atom-community/atom/

There is this: https://github.com/atom-community/atom

If you haven't heard, MS is retiring Atom in December 2022. I assume most of us will try the Atom community fork. But as back-up, etc., what editors are folks thinking about / exploring?

After the announcement of Atom sunset, people started to continue it as a community fork. It seems it's growing and drawing attention: At July 10th (two days after the announcement), it had 86 stars, but now it has more than 230! It may be no comparable to the star count of Atom itself (around 58k), but it's rising.

But - the community is taking the job to reimplement the servers. We're not sure about teletype, but packages will be able to be installed - well, in a different Atom binary that the community will provide. For more info: https://github.com/atom-community/atom/discussions

Nice post. Obligatory Helix plug: For anyone interested in taking this further, there are whole editors designed around multi-cursor editing.

https://helix-editor.com/

I could never turn it off completely but I do sometimes use the Acme theme during the day (it's too bright in the evening), which highlights just comments, strings, and errors.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Themes#acme

You can use a snippet LSP to work around Helix not having a built-in LSP manager. They're listed in https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/395

I'm probably not the average python programmer.

But I normally just create two terminals (I have a tiling window manager) and in one I open a python file under /tmp/ write my code and execute it in the other terminal.

I would probably use a REPL if it was integrated in my favorite editor ( https://helix-editor.com ).

Wow, that's been there a while: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/35c974c9c49f912...

Wonder how I missed that. I'm getting a re-education in helix today -- thank you! I'll go through `hx --tutor` again before I insert any more feet in my mouth.

Interesting to see how they are gonna approach integrating plugins/extensions system, because this is likely gonna be one of the major factors affecting adoption and ecosystem growth.

Helix devs, for instance, lean towards a Scheme-like implementation. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...