Sunsetting Atom Text Editor

• lapce

  178 32,152 9.6 Rust

  Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

  

Why not collaborate with developers of existing code editors such as Xi Editor (https://xi-editor.io) or Lapce (https://lapce.dev) instead of making yet another one?

As for lightweight alternatives to Atom, there is also Lite-XL (https://lite-xl.com).

• brackets

  67 1,274 4.7 JavaScript

  An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. (by brackets-cont)

  

What was Atom good for, when compared with something like Visual Studio Code?

I recall reading about typing latency and it seemed to come out as one of the slower options: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

I guess it would have occupied a similar place as Brackets, another vaguely similar project? https://brackets.io/

Then again, with how popular VSC has become and with how insanely many extensions there are for it, using any other editor feels a bit... counterproductive at times?

Personally, i'm using the following:

  - CLI: nano (vim works too, I just like the simplicity more)

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• lite-xl

  54 4,326 8.8 Lua

  A lightweight text editor written in Lua

  

Why not collaborate with developers of existing code editors such as Xi Editor (https://xi-editor.io) or Lapce (https://lapce.dev) instead of making yet another one?

As for lightweight alternatives to Atom, there is also Lite-XL (https://lite-xl.com).

• sublime_text

  278 793 0.0

  Issue tracker for Sublime Text

  

• hydrogen

  6 3,903 0.0 TypeScript

  :atom: Run code interactively, inspect data, and plot. All the power of Jupyter kernels, inside your favorite text editor.

  

I personally found Atom + Hydrogen [0] to be the most productive interactive Python environment I've ever used. I really want to see VSCode adopt some way to run a Jupyter kernel for a Python file (with a notebook UI) and have rich results in line with the code (i.e. not a terminal output off to the right side of the screen).

[0] https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen

• vscodium

  535 23,621 9.5 Shell

  binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  

• neovide

  109 11,897 9.1 Rust

  No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

  

Earlier this year Keith Simmons, the author of Neovide (https://github.com/neovide/neovide), joined our team. He's been working on Vim bindings and paying a lot of attention to getting it right. As you probably know there's a lot of surface area, so this will take time.

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• iced

  165 22,704 9.9 Rust

  A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

  

• oni2

  42 7,735 0.0 Reason

  Native, lightweight modal code editor

  

How does it do in comparison to the other upcoming "better VSC"s? Like for example:

https://v2.onivim.io/

https://helix-editor.com/

• textadept

  19 586 8.7 Lua

  Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.

Textadept has both TUI and GUI, and is Free Software: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/

The way it works is that its creator made a TUI implementation if the GUI library he used for the graphical version, so you have the same menus etc.

• uemacs

  18 1,123 0.0 C

  Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons

He doesn't. Linus uses MicroEMACS [0], which is an entirely different editor that uses emacs bindings.

It's not the lisp machine that incidentally happens to edit code that GNU Emacs is.

Or, as he puts it [1]:

> I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar.

[0]: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs

• xi-editor

  42 19,805 2.6 Rust

  A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.

  

Why not collaborate with developers of existing code editors such as Xi Editor (https://xi-editor.io) or Lapce (https://lapce.dev) instead of making yet another one?

As for lightweight alternatives to Atom, there is also Lite-XL (https://lite-xl.com).

• nw.js

  58 40,097 8.9 JavaScript

  Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

  

There is also NW.js (f.k.a. Node-Webkit), which was preceding Electron and was also a foundation for a lot of apps: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/List-of-apps-and-companie...

• Brackets

  38 33,735 1.4 JavaScript

  Discontinued An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

  

Oh, that's a good point about the sunsetting. In Brackets's case, Adobe left it active in the hands of the community.

Live Preview in particular is one of the areas I had some fun working on. I worked out a way to do diff/patch to make it quickly and incrementally update the browser[1]

[1]: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Research%3A-HTML-DOM-...

• SubEthaEdit

  2 1,355 0.0 Objective-C

  General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.

  

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