GitHub Atom's Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe Atom is a symbol for a changing software world---an open source tool that can be used to build itself. Chris Wanstrath was in love with Emacs.

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom 'hackable text editor' late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling.

In a major announcement for developers, GitHub has launched Codespaces — a feature that lets you code directly on the web. Think of this as a virtual Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on ...

Microsoft, which acquired GitHub for $7.5bn in 2018, launched its Visual Studio Code text editor in 2015 to compete with Atom.

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 ...

Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by ...

GitHub announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company launched in 2011.

VS Code has barely been released and can already handle OpenAI's latest language model GPT-5. It should bring advantages in reasoning, programming and chat.

Visual Studio Code 1.100 brings compact editor view Detached editor windows can now be displayed more compactly and the AI-supported GitHub Copilot Chat also receives new functions in this release.