The company has set 15 December as the last official day Atom will be in operation. But a ‘successor’ is in sight. After more than a decade of helping software developers write code, GitHub is ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to customization, Zed is right up there with VS Code. You can head into Settings > Appearance and tweak every ...

At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

With VS Code 1.81, the diff editor includes several new features and bug fixes, and the new diff algorithm is enabled by default. Visual Studio Code 1.81, the latest release of Microsoft’s extensible ...

Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This ...

Hundreds of developers expressed amazement at a new preview feature introduced this month by GitHub: the ability to instantly open up Visual Studio Code in a browser in order to edit the source code ...

Microsoft has released a new version of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its hugely popular open-source code editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, which its creator, Microsoft technical fellow Erich Gamma ...