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 ...

GitHub today announced new integration with the open source Atom code editor and a beta of its GitHub Desktop app, with both providing developers with new ways of working with the company's software ...

But a ‘successor’ is in sight. After more than a decade of helping software developers write code, GitHub is archiving its open-source text editor Atom to focus on cloud-based alternatives.

But the code for the app grew so large---apparently, Facebook's code base is nearly as big as Microsoft's Windows operating system ---that Xcode couldn't really handle it.