Atom 1.0 also now includes built-in support for ES6 language features — a crucial thing both for those developing for Atom, and developing projects in JavaScript 6 generally.

Facebook today announced that it’s built Nuclide, its own integrated development environment (IDE) composed on top of Atom, the text editor that code-repository software company GitHub first ...

Since then, the company has released over 40 updates and the community has launched over 800 packages to extend Atom’s core features. To expand Atom, developers only need to know JavaScript and CSS.

The open source Atom text/code editor from GitHub is seeking to ease the code review process, hoping to relieve some developer anxiety resulting from pull request reviews.

Another element of Atom that might give GitHub skeptics pause is the package management system. Like Node.js itself, Atom uses a package manager to control the installation of add-ons.