Visual Studio Code vs. Atom: Origins and development Visual Studio Code and Atom have much in common. Both were built using GitHub’s Electron framework for writing desktop apps using JavaScript ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom 'hackable text editor' late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling.

Microsoft, which acquired GitHub for $7.5bn in 2018, launched its Visual Studio Code text editor in 2015 to compete with Atom.

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 ...

Both the Visual Studio Code and Atom open source code editors, which share Electron-based technology roots, have come out with updates this week.

My current editor of choice for building code on my Mac is Atom (I still go with Visual Studio when using Windows), and the OmniSharp plugin is freely available to make Atom useful for .NET ...

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...