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.

GitHub Atom's Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe Atom is a symbol for a changing software world---an open source tool that can be used to build itself. Chris Wanstrath was in love with Emacs.

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by ...

GitHub Copilot is an OpenAI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that can suggest lines of code or entire functions as you type.

VS Code has barely been released and can already handle OpenAI's latest language model GPT-5. It should bring advantages in reasoning, programming and chat.

Visual Studio Code 1.100 brings compact editor view Detached editor windows can now be displayed more compactly and the AI-supported GitHub Copilot Chat also receives new functions in this release.