GitHub Atom 1.9 picks up speed, drops API

It's two steps forward, one step back for GitHub's Atom editor.
GitHub is moving ahead with the text editor, releasing a speedier upgrade, version 1.9, this week and revealing intentions for the follow-up edition, now in a beta stage. But the company nixed the GitRepositoryAsync API for interaction with Git repositories and apologized to package authors about the deletion.[ Get the most out of collaborative programming with InfoWorld's 20 essential pointers for Git and GitHub. | Keep up wi