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 ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom "hackable text editor" late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling. As a desktop application, Atom just had no viable ...

If you’re a fan of Microsoft Visual Studio Code—and it seems more people are every day—it’s because the popular code editor offers a heap of appealing features. It’s endlessly customizable, highly ...

After introducing an updated version of the popular Atom code editor -- and facing a deluge of more than 4,000 open issues -- GitHub is changing the way it handles bug reports, feature requests 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 ...