But Visual Studio Code is hardly the only popular code editor out there. In fact, the market is filled with highly customizable editing apps, not least of which is “hackable” Atom, a tool ...

Visual Studio Code is based on technology found in GitHub’s open-source code editor, Atom. If you crack into the files, you’ll notice a number of binaries are named “atom.exe” on Windows ...

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 ...

saying "we've decided to retire Atom in order to further our commitment to bringing fast and reliable software development to the cloud via Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces." It's ...

After all, it was the rapid growth and enduring popularity of Visual Studio Code that put the final nail in the coffin for GitHub’s Atom editor. That popularity is driving an interesting shift ...

GitHub and Facebook this week announced Atom-IDE, a new initiative to bolster the open source Atom code editor with IDE-like features. Based on GitHub's barebones code editor, the project's UI borrows ...