In fact, Atom could be considered a 21st-century Emacs, the venerable text editor that’s still in wide use among veteran programmers.

Source code repository company GitHub today released version 1.0 of its Atom text editor for working with code.

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-hosting platform provider GitHub on Tuesday released to open source its Atom text editor for developers.