Atom, the text editor developed by GitHub Atom and built on the Electron framework, has been upgraded with improvements centered on GitHub packaging as well as Python and HTML language capabilities.

Jumping into a complex editor can be an additional burden if you're not don't need the complexity. Learning an advanced IDE or even editor can be difficult for new users.

As everybody settles back into the grind after the holidays, here's a list of notable new open source projects that might have been missed amid all the reveling.

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 ...