GitHub open sourced an early "beta" version of Atom about a year ago, sharing the underlying code with the rest of the 'net, and since then, the tool has been downloaded 1.3 million times, with ...

GitHub even made it ridiculously easy to fire up VS Code in the browser with this trick: From any repo or pull request, developers can simply press the period (.) key to bring up the browser-based VS ...

GitHub has built its own browser-based text editor, where developers can write and edit code. It has a shot at ending the long-running war on which text editor is best.

But a ‘successor’ is in sight. After more than a decade of helping software developers write code, GitHub is archiving its open-source text editor Atom to focus on cloud-based alternatives.