Visual Studio Code vs. Atom: Origins and development Visual Studio Code and Atom have much in common. Both were built using GitHub’s Electron framework for writing desktop apps using JavaScript ...

Both the Visual Studio Code and Atom open source code editors, which share Electron-based technology roots, have come out with updates this week.

Microsoft-owned GitHub, the leader in that space, put its Atom code editor to bed earlier this month following a June announcement wherein it said "we've decided to retire Atom in order to further our ...

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 ...