# Atom

Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for OS X, Linux, and Windows 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. Atom is based on Chromium and written in CoffeeScript. It can also be used as an IDE.

## License

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.

## External links

- [Official website][1]
- [Repository on GitHub][2]

[1]: https://atom.io/
[2]: https://github.com/atom/atom

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[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(text_editor)
[4]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/