My favorite is VS Code by far. I use it daily. They recently also added a bunch of sound cues to help figure out if code is folded or a line contains an error. It's pretty great. Auto completion reads well, the parameter hints read, even the built-in terminal works. So overall I'm really happy with it.

Microsoft is particularly good with regard to a11y and devtooling

speaking of VSCODE, i wonder if MS acquiring github has anything to do with sunsetting atom.

It probably played a pretty big role. Everything Atom could do, VsCode could do better. At some point it didn't make sense to put man-hours into two different editors with the exact same technology stack.

Not likely, GitHub is a separate business and makes their own decisions.

MS also competes with GitHub also; Azure Repos are a thing, as is Azure DevOps and those are just two examples. MS has plenty of products that compete with each other.

In some spaces this is a good strategy as you will capture more market share with two products than you will with one and you can avoid to an extent monopoly claims.

GitHub Codespaces is what killed Atom and while MS was probably involved in the decision to develop Codespaces, the decision to sunset Atom likely wasn't explicitly made at that time; its simply a side affect as other things have eclipsed Atom.

Microsoft has moved essentially the whole development team for Azure DevOps to GitHub. GitHub is what they consider the future.

Would you mind commenting on XCode? I heard that Apple really cares about accessibility.

I don't have much experience with XCode, however the few things I did do seemed accessible. As accessible as XCode can be - I personally find a lot of the interface a bit confusing. Super long lists, nested options, but I assume those aren't things that are specifically confusing to people using assistive tech and I'm sure I'd be able to find my way around it well if I used it more. Mac seems to be a lot more consistent with their accessibility story than others, and we constantly get new features from them. With the new MacOS for example we got a VoiceOver feature that tells us when we have formatting problems in text, and we can finally get indentation announced (something which we had to do using custom scripting before). Not to mention all the cool things that involve some form of (live) image recognition, like telling us where people are, where doors are, etc etc.

The design of the existing and previous mac mice and the new System Settings app in MacOS Ventura tell a different story.

> the new System Settings app in MacOS Ventura

Maybe it's just me but I'd not judge things like that on the first non-public beta.

I cannot comprehend being blind and developing for my existence. I think I would die, or else become a lecturer .

What an exceptionally unhelpful comment.

It was. I was in a particularly moody state and my filter was gone. It was meant in a way to be sympathetic to the challenges of that situation but is phrased badly. I'd delete it but I can't.

These things happen. Props for acknowledging.

Visual Studio is quite good: https://youtu.be/94swlF55tVc

I've only ever heard good things about Visual Studio in this area, not sure if other IDEs are comparable. I do know Eclipse has a specialized build for this purpose as well. I wonder if XCode is also decent in this regard. I think Notepad++ might be only other one from memory that I know of.