I don't think so. Keep in mind that Atom is used internally at Github, and is starting to be adopted by some big names. Things like that don't get chocked out by the competition. I'm not sure how much funding it'll loose internally if they aren't the #1 but I don't think it'll effect them as much as if Sublime Texts competitor got it's funding from sales for instance.
Uh who? About every other editor and IDE under the sun is leagues ahead of Atom. Honestly an editor based around a freaking browser is already too heavy for usage. No, I don't want to use a browser engine to run my editing environment, and a ton of "big names" are not picking up Atom at all.
Going to need to see some citations, not downvotes Hacker News. I don't care if it's the "hip new editor", being made by GitHub is not enough.
I don't know if 'adopted' is the right word, but it and its underlying platform or whatever are being used by Microsoft, Facebook and Slack among others
Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, not Atom. The editor component is Microsoft's and based on Monaco, the editor used in Visual Studio Online.
Electron is a souped up Chromium Embedded Framework, patched to make it easier to develop desktop applications. Atom is built on top of that.
So, Visual Studio Code only uses the "low level" components from the Atom project, but it doesn't use Atom itself (unlike Nuclide which is, instead, a set of Atom plugins).
Not to criticize the tools themselves here (Atom or Nuclide), but the process of building an enhanced X over some large base application code didn't work out well for a lot of Eclipse tools. Or at least my experience is with working with lots of Eclipse + "x" on top environments which were integrated once, then rarely touched the base Eclipse again... leading to lots of inconsistent annoyances between Eclipse/tool instances.
As an eclipse user for far to long, I understand the pain. I'd prefer if more languages/frameworks went the Golang approach and provided generic tools that can then be integrated into various editors to provide things like auto-complete and context support (oracle).
I don't think so. Keep in mind that Atom is used internally at Github, and is starting to be adopted by some big names. Things like that don't get chocked out by the competition. I'm not sure how much funding it'll loose internally if they aren't the #1 but I don't think it'll effect them as much as if Sublime Texts competitor got it's funding from sales for instance.