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.

Facebook developers have crafted a version of the Atom open-source text editor that can be deployed in a web browser. Atom in Orbit, as the new technology is called, is now available on GitHub under a ...

Since it launched three years ago, GitHub’s Atom text editor has been a formidable open-source option for coders, alongside cross-platform favorites like Sublime Text. But if it’s not already your ...

GitHub’s homegrown text editor has hit version 1.0 today, 18 months after the company launched a preview version of the app. Atom, which has been downloaded 1.3 million times, has seen 155 releases ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: Atom, GitHub’s free text editor, has been toiling away in beta builds for a while now. Today, it’s officially available as a stable version. Atom is still open source and still ...

Windows: Atom, the free text editor from the folks at Github (and one of our favorite text editors), now has an official Windows version. It's an alpha release, but it brings all of Atom's features to ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

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 ...

Atom 1.34 introduces the ability to preview staged changes, and the 1.35 beta adds a view into individual commits The GitHub-developed Atom text editor emphasizes capabilities to improve commits with ...

Atom, GitHub’s text editor built on the Electron framework, is being fitted with IDE-like capabilities as a precursor to making the editor a full-fledged IDE. The first step in Atom’s transition from ...