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.

The company has set 15 December as the last official day Atom will be in operation. But a ‘successor’ is in sight. After more than a decade of helping software developers write code, GitHub is ...

OS X (Win/Linux coming soon): Atom, the text editor from the folks at GitHub and one of your favorites, is now open source and free to download and use. The team is still working on Windows and Linux ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The direct integration with the code-hosting platform to make things easier for devs -- but also ties them more closely to GitHub GitHub’s Atom, the Node.js- and HTML5-powered code editor, has ...

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 ...