I am a coding newb. My background is relatively limited: a CS class in high school (Pascal) nearly two decades ago and in the last decade moderate tinkering with XHTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL. In the last 5 ...

Source code repository company GitHub today released version 1.0 of its Atom text editor for working with code. Contributors to the Atom open-source project have made several improvements to the ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

The company has set 15 December as the last official day Atom will be in operation. But a ‘successor’ is in sight. After more than a decade of helping software developers write code, GitHub is ...