Atom Reviews & Product Details

I love atom's UI and the ability to install packages to customize the text editor.

Although atom has a more streamlined UI than it's competitors like sublime, I do think that atom is slow.

Nothing, I really prefer atom to other text editors that are already out there in the market today.

Super fast start up. Very customizable, great ecosystem of plugins

Menus are a little hard to navigate making it difficult to find options you want sometimes.

Using it to edit XML, JSON, javascript files.

I think Atom is a great alternative to code editors like Sublime Text or when you don't need to use a full-fledged IDE like Visual Studio or Eclipse. Full-blown IDEs can be resource intensive or overkill for the project you are working on. Eclipse contains a lot of often-used features like Intellisense, code highlighting, and some Git integration. It is lightweight and has a community of add-on developers that produce extensions to let you do pretty much anything.

My main issue with Atom is how it handles larger files. It can take actual minutes to load a file that's only 5-10MB in size. Even after the file is open, moving around the file in the editor can be extremely choppy.

Developing in-house web applications and websites. Developing client websites and software. This is also useful with performing advanced operations on text files quickly if you want to do a regex find and replace for example. Or opening a bunch of text files and doing a mass find/replace. A regular notepad application usually can't do this.

atom provides a lot of customability and features

it could have more out of the box but its sufficient

the open source development add ons are very helpful

extremely flexible editor with a strong community

it is not great at handling large file sizes

use it for developing custom tools/plugins to make work more efficient.

Very easy to use, a lot of plugins available

Sometimes it is hard to find the right plugin

For IDE and text editor

The support of wide variety of languages

Not supporting Swift language and it should support that also

Mainly fast reading of code and support of multiple languages

Really fast and easy to use. You can connect it to most of the React stuff like Nuclide that is from facebook. You can connect to Flow. And there are a lot of add-ons for all needs possible

Sometimes it can be very slow when I have big files ( like more than 400 lines )

Software develop for web and native

I love how many great extensions (packages) are made for Atom. They give Atom a ton of utility no matter what language or project you're working on. And because it's open source from GitHub, you can get it for free and know that it will be around. It's really a great tool. The git integration out of the box is nice as well.

There is little I dislike about Atom. The navigation for preferences could maybe be a little easier, but it's tolerable. It's hard to discover new packages but you can also use github or other online tools for that.

I have a solid text editor that I can use when I code that is free, reliable, and extensible.

Easy to heavily customize, has plenty of plugins that range from support for an exotic IT language to some versioning tools. It has everything!

A bit slow at times when opening, and lack a bit of automatic tools for refactoring massive code base but it doesn't aim to be an IDE like WebStorm and cie.

Atom is my go-to editor when working on some Elm code or to quickly browse/edit code. I'll use Webstorm when I need to work on a massive JavaScript/TypeScript project with a lot of LOC but otherwise, I really like the easy-of-use of Atom. And as I said, it is clearly the best Elm editor I tried (Checkout Elm-jutsu plugin! It should get a review of its own)