Atom Reviews & Product Details

It’s a lightweight piece of software that has a nice interface

Code completion for newer languages like swift and kotlin could be improved.

I’m mostly using Atom for file editing and some note making in meetings.

Atom is extremely easy to set up and get going with. It is a simple electron app so it is platform agnostic and is fast to start up. Atom is full of plugins and has a very active community. While Atom is not a complete IDE, the plugins available have the ability to transform this simple text editor into an enterprise level IDE.

Since Atom is an electron app, it is very resource heavy for something so simple. When opening large files the program may hang even on the most powerful machines. Atom is also not a full IDE, plugins must be installed to get this functionality. These plugins are mostly 3rd party and have varying levels of support so they are not for the faint of heart or tech illiterate.

Atom, with its Teletype ability (shared cursor across machines), allowed us to kick start a project with pair programming before we had this project in version control.

It's code completion is too good. Coupled with more internal debugger features

On the age of visual studio code and sublime text atom seems a little antiquated

It solves day to day programming requirements. With more tracing and code completion

I like that it works well and has native integration with GitHub.

But I am not that comfortable with the interface and the shortcuts. I guess I'm too used to Sublime Text and VS Code. Also, I wish there was code snippets already implemented. Not just autofill based on past input. At least in PHP.

I tried it out of curousity. Everybody was talking so highly of it. It's not solving any need of mine because I'm already using VS code most of time.

The default dark theme, the heavy amount of customization available, the integration with GitHub and the documentation all make Atom a pleasure to use.

Being an Electron based application, Atom can be resource intensive, and having several projects open at the same time can cause them to slow down drastically.

Atom allows each individual to set up their editor as they wish, while still having everyone working on a quality platform.

The interface is very intuitive and pretty to look at

It doesn't make transitioning from other text editors very easy and has a larger starting footprint (resources and time) than Sublime

Quick & dirty text edits to files

It's fast! Quick to load and render files. Good syntax coloring.

Not much refactoring support, like what you would get in a heavier-weight IDE.

Programming.

I like that I can make it what I want and customize almost every element. I also like the aesthetics and the way that installing add-ons can be done from within the software. I also really like the linters that can be installed and the community of add-on builders. There are also many great tutorials

I dislike how some things are hard to integrate, such as the terminal and debugging. It is also very overwhelming for a beginner. Almost nothing can be done right of the box and it is definitely necessary to have a walk through at the start.

I used to use atom as my baseline IDE but have switched to Visual Studio, mainly because of the built in terminal feature.

Very ease to use, intutitive even for beginners, customizable.

Hard to configure sometimes, confusing setup.

More productivity

It's free & open source text editor that is available for all platforms like mac, windows, and linux. The important thing that most of the people don't know is that it is written in Node Js.It also provide tons of plugin support which is really very impressive.

Oops! probably I don't find anything till yet.

I used to code in Atom for all my development needs.

Incredible amount of plugging that allows the user to build his IDE as his/her likes and avoid all the extra things that don't use or even need. Light weight ram consumption if the use of plugging are well configured.

Not the best loading speed when dealing with many plugikd. Doesn't behave nice with big files. It lacks performance

Great support for any language and nice integration with git and svn. Easy to understand and to use. Does not need for any learning time.

Ease of coding. Lightweight. Availability of many useful plugins.

Not many themes and changing settings for different build profiles is not very easy.

Coding in different languages such as C++.

Plugins for different language checks and autocompletes, find & replace using regex, find in multiple files

Buggy at times, takes a lot of ram. Opening a large file can sometimes crash it.

Coding JS, easy to use, linters available as 3rd party plugins. Makes it really easy to develop for JS

Frankly, I use Visual Studio Code, but used Atom for a long time. It's a great text editor for lots of languages. I think it comes with great pre-installed plugins for JS.

I think the plugin manager is not as easy and quick to use as VSC.

Full stack JS

Easy to use. A lot of great plugins are available.

Unlike some intellij products, it doesn't allow a user to search throughout a project.

It's a place to write code.

Its easy to use to implement all kind of application development

Its not provides sublime and visual studio code features. some of the visual studio features are great.

Lots of problem i have solved with atom. some kind of query and coding problems etc.

With atom you can integrate libraries that allow to make python code, in my personal case, Python does not have a official IDE, but with atom you can have a great tool to make code, and not only for python, we can use for nodejs, and any other open source programming language.

Sometimes, the libraries, must be installed manually, and sometimes doesnt work ok,

Develop microservices with nodejs and python.

I like how this program handles the formatting for LESS css markup. When sections of code are collapsible, it makes it easier to work with style sheets. I also like how you can easily manage the files you are working with in the left sidebar.

I wish there was a function that would help to find broken pieces of code. Additionally, it would be great to have a function that would show hex colors when you hover the same way that the most recent version of DreamWeaver does.

I use ATOM almost exclusively for all of my LESS markup. It allows me to edit html, java, and css easily to deliver professional end products to my clients.

I really enjoy how Atom is able to load images as well as text documents.

I don't like the default font that it uses, it annoys me a little.

I need to often open a bunch of jpegs or pngs at the same time and have found Atom to help me do that.

Atom is a beautiful editor. It's sleek, cutomizable, and a complete rip off of Sublime. It has everything out of the box. Download the IDE and you can start working on any codebase with correct syntax highlighting, and code navigation.

You know that trend that's happening where javascript developers want to put javascript everywhere? And they care more about typless design and style instead of speed and productivity? Well shortlt after the disease of nodejs spread through our society, those infected decided "you know, lets make application development like web development also". The underlying issue of course is that the barrier of entry for web development is so low, that you get hoards of developers with who think they are good engineers and they then need to write tools outside the browser. Instead of learning an actual language, they've bastardized programming, and stuffed html,css,and javascript in places it doesn't belong. Introducing Atom. Its exactly like Sublime but 20x slower. In short, Atom is built with the wrong technology, and it suffers greatly.

I use atom on occasion.. mainly for web development, but even then I've mostly switched to Sublime. Since Atom is backed by github, it has a pretty good community. So foes Sublime, but I'd say atom's community seems a little more active. Community is always an under-represented strength of technology. You can have a great product, but if there is no community, it never be used to its full potential. You can have a bad product, but if all the work-arounds and support is available from the community, you can get by just fine, and the community (who actually cares) will improve the software.