---
title: "GitHub Axes Atom Text Editor, Recommends VSCode Instead"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-axes-atom-text-editor-recommends-vscode-instead-cyvgdglqu
source_url: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/06/github-axes-atom-text-editor-recommends-vscode-instead
type: article
source: "omg! ubuntu!"
published: 2022-06-09T19:53:51.208Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:46:14.722Z
tags: ["devtools", "github", "microsoft", "nodejs"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 24
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# GitHub Axes Atom Text Editor, Recommends VSCode Instead

**[omg\! ubuntu\!](https://daily.dev/sources/omgub)** · 2 min read · 24 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

GitHub’s Atom text editor is being discontinued. GitHub says it has decided to ‘retire Atom in order to further our commitment to bringing fast and reliable software development to the cloud’ Microsoft has its own Electron-based coding-come-text-editor in VSCode.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/06/github-axes-atom-text-editor-recommends-vscode-instead>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 1 upvotes

> Press F to pay respect

**@pwitham** · 0 upvotes

> To be brutally honest, I had already forgotten that Atom was a thing. Not that it was bad, I just assumed it was dead a long time ago.

**@lin\_du** · 0 upvotes

> There are too many things in the same, it's time to converge

**@andrei0x309** · 0 upvotes

> I am surprised it lasted this much, never was a big fan of Atom, nevertheless it was great, to spark competition among electron IDEs I guess so it had its use.

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