Pulsar Editor
A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- Clean design
- Support for Themes
- Distraction-free
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Community-based
- Hackable
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Multiple languages
- Add-ons
- Tabbed interface
GitHub Integration- Ad-free
- Teletype
- Support for MarkDown
- Dark Mode
- Folder Hierarchy
Git Support- Live Preview
- Portable
- Autocompletion
- Syntax Highlighting
- Full-Text Search
- No Tracking
- Code Formatting
- File Versioning
- Command line interface
- Electron based
- Fuzzy Finder
- Unit Testing
- Plugin manager
- Package Control
- Modular System
- Collaborative writing
- Plugin API
- Code Snippets
Gitlab integration- Multiple Cursors
Support for Node.js- Code Completion
- Minimap
- Separated workspaces
Tags
- programming
- hackability
- programmers-editor
- packages
Pulsar Editor News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Pulsar Editor
Pulsar 1.120 brings enhanced Tree-sitter, new Windows icon, and improved snippet handlingPulsar, the community-led hyper-hackable code editor developed by the creators of Atom, has release...
Recent activities
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What is Pulsar Editor?
Pulsar, or sometimes referred to as Pulsar-Edit is a new image of the beloved 'Hackable Text Editor' 
Atom.
After the announcement of Atom's sunset, the community came together to keep Atom alive via the longstanding fork Atom-Community. However, due to differences in long-term goals for the editor, a new version was born: Pulsar.
Pulsar aims to not only reach feature parity with the original Atom, but to bring Pulsar into the 21st century by updating the underlying architecture, and supporting modern features.
Pulsar is an open-source, 
Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.js) and offers the same editing experience across Mac, Windows and Linux desktops. Different from most editors, it uses that same technology for themes so the UI is highly configurable through HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
FEATURES
- Same familiar workflow across platforms.
- Built-in package manager.
- File system browser.
- Advanced find-and-replace that works across multiple files and folders.
- Smart autocompletion.
Pulsar Editor information
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Comments and Reviews
The Pulsar text editor is a community-led project that emerged as a fork of the Atom code editor, which was officially discontinued in December 2022. Pulsar is built on the Electron framework, utilizing the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, which may contribute to its performance being slightly slower compared to native applications. Despite this, Pulsar offers a range of features such as smart autocompletion, a built-in package manager, and the ability to work across different operating systems. The discontinuation of Atom has indeed affected the update cycle of many plugins; however, Pulsar's active community is working to provide alternatives and maintain the editor's ecosystem.
The Pulsar text editor is a community-led project that emerged as a fork of the Atom code editor, which was officially discontinued in December 2022. Pulsar is built on the Electron framework, utilizing the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, which may contribute to its performance being slightly slower compared to native applications. Despite this, Pulsar offers a range of features such as smart autocompletion, a built-in package manager, and the ability to work across different operating systems. The discontinuation of Atom has indeed affected the update cycle of many plugins; however, Pulsar's active community is working to provide alternatives and maintain the editor's ecosystem.
The Pulsar text editor is a community-led project that emerged as a fork of the Atom code editor, which was officially discontinued in December 2022. Pulsar is built on the Electron framework, utilizing the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, which may contribute to its performance being slightly slower compared to native applications. Despite this, Pulsar offers a range of features such as smart autocompletion, a built-in package manager, and the ability to work across different operating systems. The discontinuation of Atom has indeed affected the update cycle of many plugins; however, Pulsar's active community is working to provide alternatives and maintain the editor's ecosystem.
It's great, that the awesome Atom Editor is not left dead without a revival. I always loved Atom for being simple yet powerful. This is a great code editor and I generally like it more than vscode, although there are not as many up-to-date extensions available (yet?)