Atom Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

Atom is a lightweight text editor that have plugin support for almost all languages. The themes are available online since the community is great around it.

I don’t think of anything that I don’t like about it.

It has made writing code so much easier and it is very fast.

I love that this code editor is completely extendable and customizable. It can do so much, but it also looks great right out of the box. I switched from Sublime and haven't missed a beat.

The only thing to dislike is how robust the app is. I feel like I still have a lot to learn, in order to take full advantage of the features and shortcuts.

I use Atom to develop websites for WordPress, so I use this app daily.

Atom has a large library of extensions that can be added to your editor including the syntax for JSX, TSX, Typescript that most editors won't understand. It also has a lot of keyboard shortcuts and multipane views making it super efficient to use.

Boot time can be improved, also integration with SFTP has always been very weak.

Using it to code everyday in Ruby & Javascript

It is one of the best text editors out there, with tons of addon packages available for any kind of funstionality desired. Very stable, light, and easy to use.

Sometimes loading very large files takes too long, but I have trouble viewing those files with other editors too, so that could be my system’s limitation.

Very easy to use with multiple good looking themes to ensure development is fast.

Seamlessness and ease of use are the best. I use it for Wordpress plugin development. I use PHP CSS and JSP often together and it works great with Atom.

I still don't see why a regular search and search in the buffer would be needed. Why not both in a single search?

Writing PHP Plugins for WordPress multisite. I write custom plugins for adding accessibility to the NYU WordPress multisite. Atom makes it easy and seamless for me to code and helps me focus on what matters the most: My plugin

All the plugins are brilliant for Atom, love the editing and syntax highlighting. Many shortcuts to use and speed of launching and the fact its available one Mac and Windows is great. Interface is very slick. Love the default dark mode and Version control integration is perfect.

Occasionally crashes but very rare. Also had a couple of bugs with the plugins but otherwise really stable.

We specifically use it to develop on the force.com platform and so integration has been great, with plugins available. Having multiple developers using Git is also a bonus and has streamlined development.

It's very lightweight, highly customizable, and has a huge support community.

It is a bit of a CPU / memory hog when you have multiple projects open at once.

A sleek universal document & text editor. It supports all languages I've encountered for web design, scripting, database queries, etc.

I like that you can customize everything about it, it's general aesthetic, all of the open source libraries you can download or write for it.

It's possible to get your configuration in a broken state due to a corrupted library or changing a weird configuration. Hardly a criticism though because it's the risk that comes with the freedom to customize your environment.

Writing code.

There’s pretty much nothing you can’t do in atom and it’s not language dominant

You have to know which packages to download to enhance your experience

I specialize in web development so I make web apps with it.

Atom is a very powerful text editor that comes with a substantial community support, plugins, and support from GitHub.

The only downside of Atom is that it takes some time to configure the environment to your liking and sometimes requires outside tooling (i.e. installing Pyflakes for linting).

I'm not using this product to solve business problems specifically. It is used to write code.