Atom Editor Platformio Hangs at startup endless restart - fixed

When installing the excellent Atom Editor with Platformio-ide, the main window inside the editor would hang on my new Mac. I uninstalled the program and deleted the .atom directory and tried to reinstall, the application would freeze the main window, and I had to force-quit the program. After a lot of experiments, I finally found a way to fix the problem. (Having a problem with the Atom editor asking to restart over and over? Jump over here) ...

July 25, 2020