Sunsetting Atom Text Editor

1. lapce

   1 182 36,201 9.0 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).

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3. brackets

   2 68 1,431 3.4 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)

4. lite-xl

   3 56 5,355 8.7 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).

5. sublime_text

   4 296 829 0.0

   Issue tracker for Sublime Text

   

6. hydrogen

   5 6 3,948 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

7. vscodium

   6 564 27,378 9.5 Shell

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

   

8. neovide

   7 110 13,994 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.

9. SaaSHub

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10. iced

    8 177 26,560 9.8 Rust

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

    

11. oni2

    9 42 7,858 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/

12. textadept

    10 22 707 9.7 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.

13. uemacs

    11 18 1,404 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

14. xi-editor

    12 42 19,809 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).

15. nw.js

    13 59 40,751 9.5 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...

16. Brackets

    14 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-...

17. SubEthaEdit

    15 2 1,384 0.0 Objective-C

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

    

18. SaaSHub

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