Atom

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A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

What is Atom?

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
Atom is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

1204 companies use Atom in their tech stacks, including Lyft, GitHub, and Glovo.

Lyft

GitHub

Glovo

Accenture

Figma

Hubspot

Typeform

Chime

accuRx

Scale

Taxdoo

Biting Bit

Why developers like Atom

Free
Open source
Modular design
Hackable
Beautiful UI
Github integration
Backed by github
Built with node.js
Web native