Atom (text editor)

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Atom
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Atom on GNOME 3
Developer(s) GitHub, Inc.
Preview release 0.181.0[1] / 18 February 2015; 8 days ago (2015-02-18)
Development status Public Beta
Written in C++ / Node.js / CoffeeScript / JS / CSS / HTML
Operating system OS X 10.8 or later, Windows 7 & 8, and Linux
Size 65 MB
Available in English
Type Integrated development environment
License MIT License (free software)
Website atom.io

Atom is a free open-source[2][3] text and source code editor for OS X, Linux, and Windows[4] with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. Most of the extending packages have free software licenses and are community-built and maintained.[5] Atom is based on Chromium and written in CoffeeScript.[6] It can also be used as an IDE.

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Initially, extension packages for Atom and anything not part of Atom's core were released under an open-source license. On 6 May 2014, the rest of Atom, including the core application, Atom's package manager, and Atom's Chromium-based desktop application framework, Atom Shell, were released as free software under the MIT License.[7]

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