GitHub Inc. today announced new integration with the open source Atom code editor and a beta of its GitHub Desktop app. Both provide developers with new ways of working with the GitHub software ...

OS X (Win/Linux coming soon): Atom, the text editor from the folks at GitHub and one of your favorites, is now open source and free to download and use. The team is still working on Windows and ...

But seven years after he first cooked up the idea for his new-age code editor, it has arrived. It's called Atom, and today, Wanstrath and GitHub are set to unveil version 1.0 at a conference in ...

Visual Studio Code, by contrast, builds more functionality directly in. For instance, some Git integration is available out of the box in Visual Studio Code as a native part of the editor.

When word of Atom first began to circulate, some developers wondered what its licensing model would be (e.g., open core with for-pay add-ons), or how closely it would be tied into GitHub’s services.

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 ...