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, ...

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.

GitHub is morphing its open source code editor, Atom, into more of a full-fledged IDE with a new project appropriately called Atom-IDE. "Get smarter context-aware auto-completion, code navigation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After introducing an updated version of the popular Atom code editor -- and facing a deluge of more than 4,000 open issues -- GitHub is changing the way it handles bug reports, feature requests and ...

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, ...

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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-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 ...