GitHub Inc. today announced new integration with the open source Atom code editor and a beta of its GitHub Desktop app. Both provide developers with new ways of working with the GitHub software ...

GitHub open sourced an early "beta" version of Atom about a year ago, sharing the underlying code with the rest of the 'net, and since then, the tool has been downloaded 1.3 million times, with ...

But he was a member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, which worked on the (now-deprecated) Atom code editor. Now, he's launching Zed, a code editor focused on "multiplayer" experiences ...

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 ...

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.

Atom began development at GitHub, debuting in 2014, while Visual Studio Code originated at Microsoft, appearing in 2015. And then Microsoft purchased GitHub in 2018.

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 ...