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24 alternatives to Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom

We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

Hydrogen was a plugin that brought Light Table's interactive coding features to the Atom text editor. Designed for developers who wanted real-time code execution and feedback within their editor, it allowed users to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Atom v1.0▲423

   The modern & hackable text editor from GitHub

   2015 · github.blog · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Pinegrow + Atom▲181

   The perfect IDE for the web

   2016 · pinegrow.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Atomic▲444

   The fastest way to design beautiful interactions

   2015 · atomic.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   AtomPair – Pair Programming with Slack and HipChat Integration▲127

   We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

   2015 · atom.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Jumpy – An Atom Package for Jumping around Code▲19

   We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

   2014 · atom.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   GitHub for Atom▲311

   Git and GitHub integration right inside Atom

   2017 · github.blog · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Hydrogen, a multithread non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust▲154

   Multithreaded, non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust - nathansizemore/hydrogen

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   MGX (Now Atoms)▲1,296

   Turn your ideas into products that sell

   2025 · atoms.dev · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Atom▲145

   A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

   2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →

10. 10
    A hackable task-board for TODOs, FIXMEs, HACKs, etc in your code▲7

    We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

    2015 · atom.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Floobits-atom — Remote pair programming in Atom▲49

    Remote pair programming plugin for Atom. Contribute to Floobits/floobits-atom development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Atomic Sheets by Better Sheets▲327

    Component library for Google Sheets

    2022 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Atomic.io 2.0▲328

    Ultra fast, scalable and fully collaborative prototyping

    2016 · atomic.io · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base▲152

    Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base - kenforthewin/atomic

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Atomic▲140

    Hey HN, I’ve been building Atom (https://github.com/rush86999/atom), an open-source, self-hosted AI automation platform. I built this because while tools like OpenClaw are excellent for one-off scripts and personal tasks, I found them difficult to use for complex business workflows (e.g., managing invoices or SaaS ops). The main issue was State Blindness: the agent would fire a command and assume it worked, without "seeing" if the UI or state actually updated. I just shipped a new architecture to solve this called Canvas AI Accessibility. The Technical Concept: Instead of…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Atomic▲106

    Hey HN - I first posted about my knowledge base product, Atomic, here around a month ago; since then, a viral tweet by Karpathy has produced a torrent of AI powered knowledge base projects. meanwhile I've been shipping like crazy, here are some of the new features shipped in the last month: - Rebuilt the iOS app with an Android app on the way - expanded both the MCP and internal agent chat toolkit immensely - A custom, CodeMirror6-based markdown editor with obsidian-style rendering - A dashboard view that provides a daily summary of atoms created or updated in the last day And many bug fixes…

    Apr 2026 · atomicapp.ai · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Electron 1.0▲647

    Build cross platform desktop apps

    2016 · electronjs.org · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Atom package for coding Leetcode problems in the text editor▲6

    We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

    2017 · atom.io · its alternatives →

19. 19
    An Atom anti-theme▲6

    We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

    2017 · atom.io · its alternatives →

20. 20
    atom-dark-plus-ui - A dark theme for atom based on the atom dark theme▲6

    We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

    2016 · atom.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React▲222

    2020 · proton-native.js.org · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium▲191

    Lighter web automation with Python. Contribute to mherrmann/helium development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    A web text-editor where you can write, compute and draw▲218

    2022 · lambdaway.free.fr · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust▲251

    Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. Contribute to ducaale/xh development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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