Pulsar Edit
A community-led, hyper-hackable text editor for everyone
Pulsar is a community-maintained fork of the discontinued Atom text editor, designed to be a cross-platform, highly customizable code editor. It supports macOS, Windows, and Linux, and offers features like IDE integrations via language servers, built-in package management, Git integration, and deep customization through JavaScript and CSS. The project continues Atom's philosophy of combining hackability with everyday usability.
Pulsar is a fork of Atom built on web technologies, allowing users to install packages, configure keybindings and styles, and integrate language servers for IDE-like features.
software developers and programmers seeking a customizable, open-source text editor
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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