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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jrs95 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:44PM (#17222821)
I had forgotten about the Atom and VS Code angle of this. I wonder if MS will deprecate Atom in favor of VS Code now...
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by tomxor on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:32PM (#17223129)
They can't "depreciate" an OSS project just because it's hosted on a platform they own. Atom will live on one way or another, and it was never exactly tied at the hip with GitHub anyway.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jrs95 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:34PM (#17223468)
Well, they can stop paying people to work on it and divorce GitHub from it entirely. I’m sure it would still available and worked on though.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by 7ewis on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:28PM (#17223106)
Forgot about that too.

Atom is open source though isn't it? So I'm sure it won't ever disappear. I wouldn't want to move to VS Code though. I use a Mac and have heard good things about it, but I'm sure it will always be a second class citizen.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by mjrbrennan on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:52PM (#17223886)
VS Code is ridiculously good, far better than Atom in all areas. I moved from Atom to VS Code on the Mac ~1.5 years ago and have never looked back.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jrs95 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:32PM (#17223459)
VS Code is actually nearly identical on all platforms just like Atom. I find Atom generally has more available plugins, but VS Code can’t be beat for TypeScript imo.
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