This is sad news. Partially because I don't care for Microsoft, but mostly because Github was a neutral third-party without any priorities. I hope they don't discontinue Atom or apply their UX styling to the site/desktop app. Like Spotify, I felt safer that a company was just doing hosting in their domain (of music or code projects) and wouldn't try to shovel some other tech into it like Apple making Apple Music terrible on Windows. It's good to have more tech companies just doing their single thing well.

> I hope they don't discontinue Atom

Hadn't crossed my mind that they might drop Atom for VS Code before...

Atom is open source though. One company can not decide to kill it.

https://github.com/atom/atom