---
title: "Sunsetting Atom"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/sunsetting-atom-jqkcyppsv
source_url: https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/
type: article
source: "GitHub Blog"
published: 2022-06-08T15:07:04.260Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:00:51.952Z
tags: ["community", "devtools", "general-programming", "github", "microsoft"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 29
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# Sunsetting Atom

**[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 2 min read · 29 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

GitHub is sunsetting Atom and will archive all projects under the organization on December 15, 2022. Atom has not had significant feature development for the past several years. GitHub will continue to inform Atom users of the sunset in the product and on atom.io.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@matteosacchetto** · 9 upvotes

> It was my first real customizable editor and I enjoyed every part of developing with it until I moved to VSCode.
>
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> Atom will always have a piece in my heart, in fact the Atom's one dark theme is still my favourite one, even with VSCode.
>
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> A bit sad to see the sun slowly fading on it, but totally understandable choice of focusing on VSCode

**@mystpi** · 3 upvotes

> Sad but understandable.

**@iamrc1** · 1 upvotes

> Heartbreaking news for the editor which I extensively used over 2017-2020.

**@nylathewolf** · 0 upvotes

> Wow. I genuinely did not expect this to happen. I never used Atom, but it's such a shame they're sunsetting it.

**@prashantin** · 0 upvotes

> miss you atom

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