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.

GitHub today announced that its Atom text editor last month had more than 1 million active users. Usage is three times what it was when all of Atom become available under an open source MIT license ...

Over time, you get comfortable with a tool, tailoring it to fit perfectly into your workflow, then suddenly, it’s abandoned. That’s when the real frustration sets in. You have to hunt for a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

The GitHub package’s Git pane shows a list of recent commits to serve as a quick reference. The Git authentication dialog features the Remember checkbox for storing a user name and password. File ...

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 ...

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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 ...

GitHub is morphing its open source code editor, Atom, into more of a full-fledged IDE with a new project appropriately called Atom-IDE. "Get smarter context-aware auto-completion, code navigation ...

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 and ...