About us

The team

The team behind Pulsar is a community that came about organically after the announcement of Atom’s sunset. We decided that we needed to do something to keep our favorite editor alive.

Pulsar is a community-led project to modernize, update, and improve the original Atom project into a contemporary, hackable and fully open editor.

Pulsar is all of us! Feel free to contribute, discuss, answer questions and suggest ideas in any of our community areas.

The goals

Remain community-developed, -led, and -focused

The Pulsar community has the collective goal of building upon Atom’s sizable legacy. Decisions are made by those who participate and contribute; everyone helps decide how Pulsar evolves, not just a select few.

Keep the things that make it unique

Atom’s design choices set it apart among editors. It is important to maintain those design choices as much as possible — especially since it helps us maintain compatibility with the thousands of community-contributed packages that already exist.

Bring the editor’s core technologies up to date

Both Electron and Pulsar’s core modules need periodic updating to take advantage of new features in Node and Chromium.