But, following this action, is the slogan “ Microsoft loves open source” still carry the same weight? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.
To summarize, Microsoft has taken many steps to “appease” open-source supporters in recent years. The promises, in the beginning, are that it will be developed and maintained, only to come to an inevitable end. However, the sad thing is that, once again, all open-source software advocates are witnessing what happens to a piece of open-source software when a private company acquires it. We also understand that this decision is motivated by financial and strategic concerns. Well, we realize that the owner, in this case, Microsoft, is free to dispose of its software. On December 15, 2022, GitHub’s Atom-related repositories will be archived, and the official website will most likely be retained for historical purposes only, with no software downloads available. However, users will receive in-app warnings that the app is being phased away over the following six months. The Atom is still available for download and usage from the project website. Suppose you’re asking, “So what now?” here’s what happens next. Microsoft intends to push all existing users of Atom to their editor, Visual Studio Code. So the preceding statements put everything out in a clean version with no additional embellishment. To clarify, GitHub Codespaces is a cloud-hosted development environment that can be tightly integrated with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. While that goal of growing the software creator community remains, we’ve decided to retire Atom in order to further our commitment to bringing fast and reliable software development to the cloud via Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces. However, four years later, everything has radically changed. So we will continue to develop and support both Atom and VS Code going forward. At Microsoft, we already use every editor from Atom to VS Code to Sublime to Vim, and we want developers to use any editor they prefer with GitHub. When Microsoft acquired GitHub in June 2018, Nat Friedman, the CEO at the time, reassured the GitHub community that Atom was still alive and well.Ītom is a fantastic editor with a healthy community, adoring fans, excellent design, and a promising foray into real-time collaboration.
Back in 2014, Atom was developed and released by GitHub.
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