The GitHub team started working on Atom six years ago, with active development taking place for more than 2.5 years. The goal was to make a text editor that they would use for the rest of their lives.

GitHub has pulled the covers off Atom, a web-based text editor where developers can write code.

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

Earlier this year, GitHub launched a private beta of its easily expandable Atom text editor. At the time, it open-sourced 80 of the editor's libraries and packages, but the editor itself remained ...

GitHub's highly extensible Atom text editor hit 1.0 today. The editor release has only been available to the public for about a year now, but it has already been downloaded over 1.3 million times ...

VZ Editor, a popular text editor for MS-DOS, has been made open source 30 years after its last update, and the source code and image files have been made public on GitHub.

Windows 11 doesn't currently ship with a CLI text editor, but Microsoft has opened a thread on GitHub discussing the idea of adding one in. And it wants your feedback.