The direct integration with the code-hosting platform to make things easier for devs -- but also ties them more closely to GitHub GitHub’s Atom, the Node.js- and HTML5-powered code editor, has ...

Ten weeks ago, code-hosting giant GitHub introduced its latest creation: a text editor named Atom. Now, the company is opening it up to the public after an apparently successful invite-only phase.

Atom 1.0 is not just a code editor with cutting-edge add-ons, but a platform upon which other editors and IDEs can -- and are -- to be built A little over a year after its first public release, GitHub ...

Microsoft released its first cross-platform code editor to great fanfare yesterday, but it’s not quite what it appears when you peek under the hood. Visual Studio Code is based on technology found in ...

Chris Wanstrath was in love with Emacs. Emacs is a nearly 40-year-old computer program that lets you, well, edit text. It's a way of tinkering with obscure files buried inside a computer's operating ...

GitHub’s highly extensible Atom text editor hit 1.0 today. The editor release has only been available to the public for about a year now, but it has already been downloaded over 1.3 million times and ...

Windows: Atom, the free text editor from the folks at Github (and one of our favorite text editors), now has an official Windows version. It's an alpha release, but it brings all of Atom's features to ...

The company has set 15 December as the last official day Atom will be in operation. But a ‘successor’ is in sight. After more than a decade of helping software developers write code, GitHub is ...

OS X (Win/Linux coming soon): Atom, the text editor from the folks at GitHub and one of your favorites, is now open source and free to download and use. The team is still working on Windows and Linux ...

Earlier this year, GitHub launched a private beta of its easily expandable Atom text editor. At the time, it open-sourced 80 of the editor’s libraries and packages, but the editor itself remained ...