Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom "hackable text editor" late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling. As a desktop application, Atom just had no viable ...

Chris Wanstrath was in love with Emacs. Emacs is a nearly 40-year-old computer program that lets you, well, edit text. It's a way of tinkering with obscure files buried inside a computer's operating ...

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 default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code ...

With VS Code 1.81, the diff editor includes several new features and bug fixes, and the new diff algorithm is enabled by default. Visual Studio Code 1.81, the latest release of Microsoft’s extensible ...

Burgeoning artificial intelligence technologies are taking some of the complexity out of programming with tools that help ...

GitHub Copilot is an OpenAI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that can suggest lines of code or entire functions as you type. GitHub has launched a preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based coding ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

Microsoft has released a new version of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its hugely popular open-source code editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, which its creator, Microsoft technical fellow Erich Gamma ...

GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011. In a blog post, GitHub said that it will archive the Atom repository and ...