Atom (text editor)
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Atom editor with an open project
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| Developer(s) | GitHub Inc. |
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| Initial release | February 26, 2014 |
| Stable release |
1.13.1 / January 24, 2017
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| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Electron (CoffeeScript / JavaScript / Less / HTML) |
| Operating system | macOS 10.8 or later, Windows 7 and Later, Red Hat Linux and Ubuntu Linux |
| Size | ~99 MB |
| Type | Source code editor |
| License | MIT License (free software) |
| Website | atom |
Atom is a free and open-sourcetext and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. Atom is a desktop application built using web technologies. Most of the extending packages have free software licenses and are community-built and maintained. Atom is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell), a framework that enables cross-platform desktop applications using Chromium and Node.js. It is written in CoffeeScript and Less. It can also be used as an integrated development environment (IDE). Atom was released from beta, as version 1.0, on June 25, 2015. Its developers call it a "hackable text editor for the 21st Century".
Using the default plugins, the following languages are supported in some aspect as of v1.5.1: HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, GitHub Flavored Markdown, C/C++, C#, Go, Java, Objective-C, JavaScript, JSON, CoffeeScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, shell script, Clojure, Perl, Git, Make, Property List (Apple), TOML, XML, YAML, Mustache, Julia & SQL.
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