But Visual Studio Code is hardly the only popular code editor out there. In fact, the market is filled with highly customizable editing apps, not least of which is “hackable” Atom, a tool ...

Meanwhile, GitHub explained why it's sunsetting Atom, which debuted in 2015 and is closely tied to the Electron Framework, which just happens to be the main framework that enables the cross-platform ...

Both the Visual Studio Code and Atom open source code editors, which share technology roots, have come out with updates this week. Besides being free, open source code editors, the two projects share ...

It's ironic that cloud-hosted VS Code is part of the future while Atom isn't, as Atom tech was closely tied to the Electron project (formerly named Atom Shell), whose bits were used as the basis for ...

Visual Studio Code is based on technology found in GitHub’s open-source code editor, Atom. If you crack into the files, you’ll notice a number of binaries are named “atom.exe” on Windows ...

Atom served as the foundation for the Electron framework, which paved the way for thousands of apps including Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Slack, GitHub’s own GitHub Desktop. But GitHub asserts ...

Microsoft, which acquired GitHub for $7.5bn in 2018, launched its Visual Studio Code text editor in 2015 to compete with Atom. Since the acquisition, VS Code has gained popularity and now has a ...