Is Eclipse overkill? Is Vim not enough? Then check out the new generation of code editors, led by Sublime Text, Atom, and Visual Studio Code Not every application needs a full-blown IDE. Tools ...

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 Electron-based technology roots, have come out with updates this week.

At Facebook, developers have already used Atom to build their own Atom, a text editor called Nuclide that's tailored for use with the unusually enormous amount of code that runs the Facebook empire.

But he was a member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, which worked on the (now-deprecated) Atom code editor. Now, he's launching Zed, a code editor focused on "multiplayer" experiences ...

GitHub's highly extensible Atom text editor hit 1.0 today. The editor release has only been available to the public for about a year now, but it has already been downloaded over 1.3 million times ...