A lack of releases could mean dead, but it could also mean finished. As in, complete: not in need of more features, and having no bugs of sufficient severity to bother fixing.
Finished is a state more software should aspire to reach. Sadly, with the advent of connectivity in everything, it's getting rare for even firmware to be finished.
Something as complex as a code editor will never be finished. There will always be new languages, new tooling, and better ways to edit.
Most real world problems have almost infinite demand for more and better software. The final text editor will be the one that reads the minds of the users and product manager and writes the code for you.
Re:Sunsetting Atom
by dingleberry420 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:02PM
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Sadly this is not the case for Atom. Many packages are just broken, half baked or missing essential features that their vscode counterparts do have.
Speaking of packages - of the six featured packages I get offered on atom.io, only one had a release in the last two years, and half have been unchanged for half a decade. Atom's already dead.