The GitHub team started working on Atom six years ago, with active development taking place for more than 2.5 years. The goal was to make a text editor that they would use for the rest of their lives.

GitHub will sunset the open-source text editor Atom on 15 December, but a successor is expected.

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom 'hackable text editor' late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling.

GitHub announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company launched in 2011.