GitHub is morphing its open source code editor, Atom, into more of a full-fledged IDE with a new project appropriately called Atom-IDE.

Atom, GitHub’s text editor built on the Electron framework, is being fitted with IDE-like capabilities as a precursor to making the editor a full-fledged IDE.

The developers behind the Atom text editor have promoted version 1.20 to the stable channel and 1.21 to the beta channel. The 1.21 release brings the Atom IDE project closer to realization.