{"id":459634,"date":"2022-06-08T21:14:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/atom-text-editor-will-officially-die-later-this-year\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:14:07","slug":"atom-text-editor-will-officially-die-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/atom-text-editor-will-officially-die-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"#Atom Text Editor Will Officially Die Later This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2cfd9df421f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2cfd9df421f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/atom-text-editor-will-officially-die-later-this-year\/#%E2%80%9CAtom_Text_Editor_Will_Officially_Die_Later_This_Year%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Atom Text Editor Will Officially Die Later This Year&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAtom_Text_Editor_Will_Officially_Die_Later_This_Year%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Atom Text Editor Will Officially Die Later This Year&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage size-full wp-image-810191\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Atom-text-editor.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"Atom logo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\">GitHub\/Atom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Atom is a text editor that has been around since 2011, and for a while, it was one of the most popular editors for programmers and anyone else who needed powerful plain text editing. Sadly, it will officially be discontinued later this year.<\/p>\n<p>GitHub, the company (now owned by Microsoft) behind Atom, announced the \u201csunsetting\u201d of Atom today. \u201cAtom has not had significant feature development for the past several years,\u201d the company said, \u201cthough we\u2019ve conducted maintenance and security updates during this period to ensure we\u2019re being good stewards of the project and product. As new cloud-based tools have emerged and evolved over the years, Atom community involvement has declined significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-810189 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/49132478-f4b77680-f31f-11e8-9e10-e8454d8d9b7e.png?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1160\" data-credittext=\"GitHub\/Atom\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\">GitHub\/Atom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Atom is a cross-platform text editor, designed to be versatile enough to be used for everything from simple text to entire software development projects. Stack Overflow\u2019s yearly surveys\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/insights.stackoverflow.com\/survey\/2016#technology-development-environments\">reported in 2016<\/a> that Atom was used by 12.5% of software developers, based on responses from over 46,000 people. The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/insights.stackoverflow.com\/survey\/2017#technology\">following year<\/a>, Atom was used by 20% of web developers, 20.7% of system administrators, and 15.9% of data scientists. That\u2019s around the time <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/\">Visual Studio Code<\/a> started to rise in popularity, which is more or less the official successor to Atom \u2014 it\u2019s developed by Microsoft, GitHub\u2019s owner, and has many integrated GitHub features.<\/p>\n<p>Atom has also earned a spot in computing history as the first major <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lication to use the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electronjs.org\/\">Electron framework<\/a>, which is now one of the most popular ways to develop cross-platform desktop apps. Slack, Discord, Skype, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> Messenger, and countless other desktop apps are built with Electron.<\/p>\n<p>Atom will be discontinued on December 15, 2022. It will likely remain available for download after that point, but no new versions will be released. However, Atom is open-source software, so there\u2019s a chance someone might pick up the project and continue development. Sublime Text might be a possible replacement for some people, as well as Visual Studio Code or <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/notepad-plus-plus.org\/\">Notepad++<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom\/\">GitHub<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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