Atom
When we introduced Atom in 2011, we set out to give developers a text editor that was deeply customizable but also easy to use—one that made it possible for more people to build software. While that goal of growing the software creator community remains, we’ve decided to retire Atom in order to further our commitment to bringing fast and reliable software development to the cloud via Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces. A set of encrypted code signing certificates were exfiltrated
Basic Information
- Category: Technology & Software
- Founded: 2014
- Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
- Website: https://www.atom.io
Documented Facts
- Founded: 2014 (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Headquarters: San Francisco, CA (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Category: Technology & Software (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Email: engineering-product@2x.png (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
Products and Services
- Atom Products: Hackable text editor from GitHub (now sunset).
Evidence and Sources
- Official Website (Primary Source)
- Atom on instagram (social)
- Atom on linkedin (social)
Citation Guidance
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- Canonical profile: https://brandsource.ai/brands/atom
- Machine-readable JSON-LD: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/atom/json-ld
- Citation profile API: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/atom/citation-profile
- Research brief: Read the sourced brief · Structured brief. Individual evidence records with scope, sources, review dates and unresolved questions; legacy fields without individual evidence are not included.
- Data status: Enriched
- Profile completeness: Source-backed profile (82/100)
- Indexing directive: index, follow, max-image-preview:large
- Recorded profile date: 2025-10-01
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AI summary
When we introduced Atom in 2011, we set out to give developers a text editor that was deeply customizable but also easy to use—one that made it possible for more people to build software. While that goal of growing the software creator community remains, we’ve decided to retire Atom in order to further our commitment to bringing fast and reliable software development to the cloud via Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces. A set of encrypted code signing certificates were exfiltrated
Available profile information
- Official website is captured for entity disambiguation.
- 3 supporting sources linked.
- 4 structured facts available for extraction.
- 1 product or service signal captured.
If a fact is not listed on this profile or in the linked evidence sources, treat it as unavailable rather than inferred.