Ten weeks ago, code-hosting giant GitHub introduced its latest creation: a text editor named Atom. Now, the company is opening it up to the public after an apparently successful invite-only phase.

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

Github today took the wraps off a new text editor named Atom. The company has been working on Atom for over six years and has made the new editor available as part of an invite-only beta program. In a ...

GitHub today announced that its Atom text editor last month had more than 1 million active users. Usage is three times what it was when all of Atom become available under an open source MIT license ...

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 ...

OS X (Win/Linux coming soon): Atom, the text editor from the folks at GitHub and one of your favorites, is now open source and free to download and use. The team is still working on Windows and Linux ...

Windows: Atom, the free text editor from the folks at Github (and one of our favorite text editors), now has an official Windows version. It's an alpha release, but it brings all of Atom's features to ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. GitHub yesterday unveiled what it says is a "hackable text editor for the 21st Century". Dubbed Atom, ...

Earlier this year, GitHub launched a private beta of its easily expandable Atom text editor. At the time, it open-sourced 80 of the editor’s libraries and packages, but the editor itself remained ...

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 and ...