[HN Gopher] To Favor Microsoft VS Code, Microsoft's GitHub Is Ki...
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To Favor Microsoft VS Code, Microsoft's GitHub Is Killing GitHub's
Atom Editor
Author : crescit_eundo
Score : 26 points
Date : 2022-06-12 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| breakalot wrote:
| RIP Deis
| jsiaajdsdaa wrote:
| I will more willingly use TextEdit or Notepad before I use VS
| Code.
|
| The reasons for this involve performance, politics, ethics, and
| UI.
| simooooo wrote:
| fritigern wrote:
| Is anyone forking Atom? I plan to continue using it.
| chloerei wrote:
| After trying VS Code for two days, I go back to Atom. I decided
| to use Atom until it can't work, and waited for the Zed editor to
| be released.
| donmcronald wrote:
| IMHO Microsoft has been doing a very good job of turning
| everything they touch into SaaS. The thing I don't get is _why_
| they 're able to do it so easily. I can understand the idea of
| accepting a "pay forever" model for a lot of stuff because the
| ongoing development and maintenance is going to cost money no
| matter what.
|
| The thing I don't understand is why everyone is so willing to
| hand control of everything to a handful of big companies. I
| thought Apple's app store would be a complete flop because I
| couldn't imagine any developers being willing to allow someone
| else to being an arbiter over their ability to distribute a
| product that (often) has a significant cost of creation. However,
| I didn't consider the massive amounts of money that first movers
| could make by taking advantage of the free promotion that was
| used as a lure. I think the tactic should be illegal since it's
| used everywhere these days, but maybe that's just me.
|
| Back to dev tools, I absolutely don't understand it. In the above
| situation, the risk created by giving up control can be justified
| by the potential of becoming a fart app millionaire. Where's the
| payoff in letting someone like Microsoft control your _entire_
| dev stack from the editor to the build system to the deployment
| (on Azure)? Are the productivity gains and cost savings from
| letting someone else deal with it really worth it? How long will
| those cost savings last and how will anyone know when they 've
| exceeded what's reasonable? What happens when things break or you
| get unfairly banned and you aren't a big enough customer to get
| to talk to a real human that can help you?
| spinningslate wrote:
| Hardly surprising. The writing was on the wall for Atom as soon
| as Microsoft acquired Github.
|
| It's a pity. Atom has some notable features that, to my mind, are
| improvements compared to vscode. Using Tree Sitter [0] instead of
| inscrutable TextMate regexes [1] for grammar specification is a
| case in point.
|
| [0] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
|
| [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-
| extensions/syntax...
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