Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor

On December 15 GitHub declared end-of-life for its 'hackable text editor' Atom. But Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM wants to remind everyone that after the announcement of Atom's sunset, 'the community came together to keep Atom alive.'

First there was the longstanding fork Atom-Community. But 'due to differences in long-term goals for the editor, a new version was born: Pulsar.'

From the Pulsar web site:

Pulsar [sometimes referred to as Pulsar-Edit] aims to not only reach feature parity with the original Atom, but to bring Pulsar into the 21st century by updating the underlying architecture, and supporting modern features.

With many new features on the roadmap, once Pulsar is stable, it will be a true, Community-Based, Hackable, Text Editor.


'Of course, the user interface is much of the same,' writes the blog Its FOSS, and it's cross-platform (supporting Linux, macOS, and Windows).

'The essentials seem to be there with the documentation, packages, and features like the ability to install packages from Git repositories...'

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