# Github annouced codespace. does it mean Atom is now abandoned?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-annouced-codespace-does-it-mean-atom-is-now-abandoned/38923
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**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-annouced-codespace-does-it-mean-atom-is-now-abandoned/38923 "2020-05-07T01:03:59Z")
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### Author: ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-annouced-codespace-does-it-mean-atom-is-now-abandoned/38923/5 "2020-05-07T09:27:59Z")

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GitHub Codespaces is essentially a rebranded and more github integrated version of [Visual Studio Codespaces](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-codespaces/).

You can get a pretty good sense how this will all work by reading [this post of mine](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compile-julia-from-source-with-ease-in-vs-code-even-on-windows/35696), and the VS Codespaces documentation.

Broadly speaking there are two ways to work with this: you can run a version of VS Code entirely in the browser that is connected to a cloud hosted computing environment, or you can connect your local VS Code to that same cloud hosted computing environment.

I don’t see any indication that Atom devs have been moved to codespaces, as far as I can tell codespaces is a product that really originated from the Visual Studio team.

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