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 ...

Since it launched three years ago, GitHub’s Atom text editor has been a formidable open-source option for coders, alongside cross-platform favorites like Sublime Text. But if it’s not already your ...

The open source Atom text/code editor from GitHub is seeking to ease the code review process, hoping to relieve some developer anxiety resulting from pull request reviews. GitHub described code review ...

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 ...

After months of testing and loads of hands-on feedback from tens of thousands of users, GitHub’s programmable text editor Atom is now available for the general public to download. Its pricetag: free, ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. GitHub yesterday unveiled what it says is a "hackable text editor for the 21st Century". Dubbed Atom, ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom "hackable text editor" late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling. As a desktop application, Atom just had no viable ...

I'm a little confused as to why Microsoft didn't just submit changes to Atom instead of creating this odd fork. They could have submitted the VS syntax stuff as a package for others to grab. And there ...