GitHub declares development stop of text editor 'Atom', repository will be archived on December 15, 2022

Atom is an open source text editor developed by GitHub co-founder Chris Wanstrath under the theme of 'A hackable text editor for the 21st Century'. is. GitHub announced that it would stop developing Atom on June 8, 2022, and announced that it would archive all projects in the organization on December 15, 2022.

Sunsetting Atom | The GitHub Blog
https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/

GitHub said, 'Atom hasn't done significant feature development for the past few years, but during this time we've done maintenance and security updates to make sure we're good admins for our projects and products. However, with the advent of new cloud-based tools like Visual Studio Code and GitHub CodeSpaces , which have evolved over the years, participation in the Atom community has dropped significantly, 'said GitHub CodeSpacesn in the cloud. Announced that it has decided to quit Atom to focus on improving the developer experience on.

GitHub has announced the following migration schedule, noting that Atom is still being used by the developer community, of course.

・ Abolition date will be set on December 15, 2022, six months later.
· Continue to display discontinued notifications to Atom users on products and atom.io for the next 6 months.
-On December 15, 2022, archive the atom / atom repositories and all repositories remaining in atom's Orgnization.

GitHub --atom / atom: The hackable text editor
https://github.com/atom/atom

GitHub said, 'GitHub and our community have benefited greatly from people who raise issues, create extensions, fix bugs, and build new features on Atom. Atom has played an integral part in the journey of many developers, and we look forward to building and shaping the next chapter in software development together. '

In addition, Atom's original developer Nathan Sobo is developing an editor called 'Zed' written in Rust.

Introducing Zed – A collaborative code editor written in Rust
https://zed.dev/