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 ...

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 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 found in ...

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 ...

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 ...

JavaScript programmers have many good tools to choose from—almost too many to keep track of. In this article, I discuss 10 text editors with good support for developing with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS ...