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

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.

VS Code's Erich Gamma details how GitHub, Electron and Chromium helped deliver world's most popular code editor.

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 ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

Microsoft is bringing its Azure-aware Copilot experience to Visual Studio 2022. The preview extension lets developers use ...

GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that allows developers to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions directly within a supported IDE. It is currently in open beta and available ...

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.

GitHub is launching a code-centric chat mode for Copilot that helps developers write and debug their code, as well as Copilot for pull requests, and more.