diff --git a/src/_drafts/github-is-sunetting-atom.md b/src/_drafts/github-is-sunetting-atom.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a08429d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/_drafts/github-is-sunetting-atom.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Farewell, Atom." +description: "Atom was an awesome text editor back in its day, and now GitHub is putting it to rest." +date: 2021-07-17 09:32:11 -0400 +tags: text-editors programming foss +--- + +Recently, back on June 8th of 2022, GitHub announced that it set an end-of-life of December 15th, 2022 for Atom. What was once a super popular text editor in the mid-2010s that has since fallen behind the times a bit, + +### History + + + +### Technological Advances + +Atom brought along with it some pretty awesome technological advances, the primary one being Electron. Initially referred to as "Atom Shell", Electron quickly took off as a way to utilize the open source web browser Chromium as a base for desktop apps, and build on top of it using web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and Node.js. + +<< Conclude the discussion of the blog post, plus shout out the [YouTube channel]({{ site.links.bitgoblin_channel }}), [Twitch channel]({{ site.links.twitch_channel }} [Patreon]({{ site.links.patreon_link }}), [Discord server]({{ site.links.discord_invite }}), etc >>