The bad scenario isn't Microsoft killing it, it's them slowly forcing everyone using it into Azure, Windows and Visual Studio, which is their usual, I think partially openly admitted, open source strategy nowadays.

That doesn't make any sense.

> GitHub is also owned by Microsoft.

GitHub was bought by Microsoft in 2018.

Recently Microsoft announced they were killing off GitHub Atom.

Being able to use the latest release of a dead project is no big reassurance.

This might be an anecdotal case, but it is indeed real world proof that a project being backed by a company the likes of Microsoft does increase the odds of being killed off.

Well, it does not make sense to have two open source, JS based text editors/IDEs that are built on electron.

Sure. [hypothetically] After Microsoft makes new "Azure UI Test", it will surely kill Playwright in favor of the new thing. It wouldn't make sense to maintain two browser automation frameworks. The second one being bound to their cloud offering is just a ... coincidence?

And from both of them, better keep the one that is under Erich Gamma's stewardship, he just happens to know a couple of things about IDEs.

Atom was bad since day One

And Google Reader was awesome till its last day.

That was a service rather than a code product, though I do wish Google released its source code for us self hosters to use rather just kill it.

And someone will likely fork it.