There had been at least one attempt to fork and revive Atom since, as the post mentions, Atom hasn’t seen feature additions in many years.
The problem, as I understand it, is that Atom’s relationship with electron makes it very difficult to work on the core of the editor. Namely, while VS Code is downstream from Electron, and can get feature benefits just by updating their Electron version, Atom is upstream from Electron, and new Electron features needed to be more manually integrated.
The problem, as I understand it, is that Atom’s relationship with electron makes it very difficult to work on the core of the editor. Namely, while VS Code is downstream from Electron, and can get feature benefits just by updating their Electron version, Atom is upstream from Electron, and new Electron features needed to be more manually integrated.