Well, I think this is a good place to start - I'll probably cross-post this message in #atom-editor. I was insisting on the Atom editor because I feel it's the only good hackable alternative to editors like Vim, NeoVim, and Emacs. Development is in "maintenance mode" as they say, but recent developments made me feel that even this is too much of a strech. This week, lots of links on the site have gone down (the link to the official slack invitations, some Heroku apps), the SSL certificate of some pages have expired, and http://atom.io/packages is simply buggy. Also, the old forums are dead, and some questions the "new forum" (GH discussions) have no answers from the official team. There's yet a atom-community fork, and a discord server, to decide for issues to focus on keeping Atom alive. Almost nobody talks on that forum either. So, yeah, Atom is probably dead. I joked around on forking Atom and slowly migrating it to ClojureScript, but I feel that this is "too much effort". If I could, somehow, gather people interested in maintaining a hackable ClojureScript editor, maybe this could be done (it's even possible to put a compatibility layer for VSCode plug-ins), but I'm quite sure there are too much people interested on keeping it alive...

I suspect that VS Code's rise has leeched a lot of people from the Atom community and I would consider Atom to be very niche at this point, much as LightTable was great in its day and then nearly everyone just went to other editors.

It is still very sad that such a nicely hackable editor option dies.

Yeah, but LightTable stopped being updated at all. Atom still have updates, but it's slowly rotting - like, sure, you get a new version every 2 months, but with nothing new (just bugfixes, and maybe an electron update that does nothing for the editor), and other parts of the editor like discussion forums, blogs, being less and less frequent

To be honest, I was even thinking about jumping into developing some features for Atom, but even the build process is not stable and expects an outdated Node.JS version...