GitHub officially archived the Atom project’s code repository, which is currently in read-only mode.

Atom is a cross-platform text editor launched by GitHub for programmers in 2011. It has a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and has many excellent features: it supports CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages; it supports macros, automatic Complements functions such as split screen and integrates the file manager.

Atom released version 1.0 in May 2015, and it attracted millions of developers to use it. Microsoft launched its own text editor, Visual Studio Code, in 2015. After acquiring GitHub in 2018, Atom became a Microsoft project. In the past few years, the number of users of Visual Studio Code has been increasing, while the number of users of Atom has been decreasing.

Although Atom is dead, the Electron framework it was developed for continues to be widely used by many applications. Max Brunsfeld, founder of the Atom project, launched a spiritual sequel to Atom – a Rust language developed Zed.