Visual Studio Code vs. Atom: Plug-ins and integration Atom was designed to be highly hackable and user-configurable. To that end, many of Atom’s core functions are provided as plug-ins.

The reach of Microsoft's super-popular, open source-based Visual Studio Code editor is still expanding, now supplying the tech for two of the most prominent code repository platforms, GitHub and ...

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 ...

According to Stack Overflow’s 2021 developer survey, just 13% of developers use Atom as their primary environment; VS Code is used by 71%. It’s not the end for Atom, necessarily.

Microsoft released its first cross-platform code editor to great fanfare yesterday, but it’s not quite what it appears when you peek under the hood. Visual Studio Code is based on technology ...

In fact, Electron was formerly known as Atom Shell, Wikipedia explains. And Microsoft's VS Code tool also leverages the Electron shell, which was updated along with the code editor in the April ...