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 ...

GitHub has built its own browser-based text editor, where developers can write and edit code. It has a shot at ending the long-running war on which text editor is best. The code-storage superstar ...

Microsoft has released a new update of its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor for Windows, Windows on Arm, macOS and Linux. The latest update brings VS Code to version 1.51, which contains fixes ...

Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This ...

Sublime HQ – the folks behind the excellent text editor Sublime Text – has released a code editor for developers that focuses on a clean interface for coding and solving git merges. It’s called ...

Is Eclipse overkill? Is Vim not enough? Then check out the new generation of code editors, led by Sublime Text, Atom, and Visual Studio Code Not every application needs a full-blown IDE. Tools like ...

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In a major announcement for developers, GitHub has launched Codespaces — a feature that lets you code directly on the web. Think of this as a virtual Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on the ...

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 ...

Hundreds of developers expressed amazement at a new preview feature introduced this month by GitHub: the ability to instantly open up Visual Studio Code in a browser in order to edit the source code ...