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 ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom "hackable text editor" late this year as it concentrates ... software development to the cloud via Microsoft Visual Studio Code and ...

Both the Visual Studio Code and Atom open source code editors ... "However, we were still able to add some improvements." Atom 1.9 and 1.10 Beta "Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet ...

This marks the first time that Microsoft offers developers a true cross-platform code editor ... Visual Studio Code will be available in other editors as well, including Sublime Text, Vi and Atom.

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 ...

Update: We're reliably informed Visual Studio Code isn't in fact built on the Atom editor; its internal references to Atom are a relic of Electron's previous name, Atom Shell. Instead, the code ...