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.

Visual Studio Code is built primarily with standard web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). We leverage Electron [previously Atom] as a cross platform host.

GitHub even made it ridiculously easy to fire up VS Code in the browser with this trick: From any repo or pull request, developers can simply press the period (.) key to bring up the browser-based VS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...