Some people don't mind using niche projects, because they feel comfy or fit their workflows well and that's good enough. That said, while using a lesser known editor always comes with the risk that it'll be deprecated and won't see language integrations/features/plugins that you need, an editor's popularity isn't the only measure of success.

Here, however, there are more platform-specific options, and many older projects that are still going strong: Sublime Text, Notepad++, Vim, Emacs and so on. Here, Visual Studio Code largely got a large market share and quickly displaced other options in the eyes of most developers: Įven in regards to native editors, there are many smaller projects. There was also Brackets, which similarly fell by the wayside: Electron) editors.Ītom, which you mentioned, fits into this category: In my eyes, this is especially prevalent in regards to browser based (e.g.

I think I get what you mean here: over time there have been many editors that might have contributed ideas to others, yet didn't quite make it themselves, due to either competition, failing to capture a significant market share, or any number of other factors. I can't imagine this project will continue much further, even if I hope so. There are many such projects, like Atom.io, whose support ends this year.

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