A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

Revived by tmiland-lab — Atom 1.63.1 climbing modern Electron, rung by rung.

Now shipping: Atom 1.63.1 on Electron 36 · chase log

Built for the way you work

Everything the original was loved for — plus the two things it always missed.

Built-in package manager

No registry, no gatekeepers: install any package straight from GitHub source. Native modules build against Electron headers automatically via the fork's patched apm.

terminal

$ apm install tmiland-lab/atom-ai
✓ Installing atom-ai ✓
$ apm install owner/my-theme
✓ Installing my-theme ✓

// smart autocompletion, tree-sitter highlighting
function revive(editor) {
return editor.open("future.js");
}

Smart autocompletion & highlighting

Tree-sitter grammars and fuzzy-native completion keep up as you type — exercised on real files in every rung's smoke tests.

Multiple panes, file browser, find & replace

Split any direction, browse the tree, project-wide search — the classic Atom workflow, untouched, running on Chromium 136.

future.js

const x = 42;

notes.md

# rung 25
ship it

Teletype is gone. atom-ai is here.

The original let you code together in real time. The revival pairs you with an AI agent instead: atom-ai docks a panel in Atom and bridges CLI coding agents — opencode, aider, claude — with file and selection context. No API keys, no cloud account.

Get atom-ai

Cross-platform, packaged for yours

Every rung ships CI-built binaries. Unsigned for now — right-click → Open on first launch.

Debian / Ubuntu

atom-amd64.deb — install with dpkg, runs on modern Debian.

Fedora / RHEL

atom.x86_64.rpm — same build, rpm-packaged on CI.

macOS

atom-mac.zip — x64 build, landing via CI.

Windows

Squirrel Setup.exe — landing via CI.

The chase ladder

Debian baseline plus every Electron rung, all CI-built. Full per-rung reports in issue #1.

Base	Rungs	Status
v1.63.1-debian13.1	Electron 11	baseline, green
e13.1 → e36.1	Electron 13 → 36	all green, released