But seven years after he first cooked up the idea for his new-age code editor, it has arrived. It's called Atom, and today, Wanstrath and GitHub are set to unveil version 1.0 at a conference in ...

Visual Studio Code, by contrast, builds more functionality directly in. For instance, some Git integration is available out of the box in Visual Studio Code as a native part of the editor.

GitHub even made it ridiculously easy to fire up VS Code in the browser with this trick: From any repo or pull request, developers can simply press the period (.) key to bring up the browser-based VS ...

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 ...

The Atom Code Editor (source: David Ramel) GitHub, facing a deluge of open issues with the editor, announced that it was implementing new triage mechanisms when it updated the editor -- reportedly ...

The reach of Microsoft's super-popular, open source-based Visual Studio Code editor is still expanding, now supplying the tech for two of the most prominent code repository platforms, GitHub and ...

When word of Atom first began to circulate, some developers wondered what its licensing model would be (e.g., open core with for-pay add-ons), or how closely it would be tied into GitHub’s services.

GitHub is morphing its open source code editor, Atom, into more of a full-fledged IDE with a new project appropriately called Atom-IDE. Just announced this week, Atom-IDE integrates programming ...

Source code repository company GitHub today released version 1.0 of its Atom text editor for working with code.. Contributors to the Atom open-source project have made several improvements to the ...

Nathan Sobo recently open-sourced Zed, a code editor that focuses on performance, integrates AI capabilities, and supports software teams’ collaboration out of the box. For performance, Zed ...

Update: We're reliably informed Visual Studio Code isn't in fact built on the Atom editor; its internal references to Atom are a relic of Electron's previous name, Atom Shell. Instead, the code ...

Atom, GitHub’s popular open source code editor, has reached an impressive milestone: more than 1 million people used it in the last month. The editor launched in 2014 to much fanfare as a ...