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.

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 ...

Facebook developers have crafted a version of the Atom open-source text editor that can be deployed in a web browser. Atom in Orbit, as the new technology is called, is now available on GitHub under a ...

Just weeks after kicking off the private beta for its Atom programming text editor, GitHub has announced that it is making the entire project open source and available to all. The GitHub team started ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...