Atom Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

The best thing about an atom is that it is highly customizable. From theme to processing, everything is under the control of the user. Along with this, you can even add packages for whatever language you code in and even add whatever compilers and interpreters you want it to work with. The next best thing about Atom is that you have git control over it which helps to make things super easy in terms of open sourcing.

Well, there is nothing I found yet to dislike in Atom. We can have some dedicated community where beginners can get help from experts and even directly from the Atom team.

I was having a separate editor and compiler as I code in C++ and Python. This always made me look out for the file I created and then go for compilation and further processing. But now, since I have Atom, I have installed a relevant package to the editor itself, which can compile my file right then and there, producing me the results. It has solved my looking out for files I created as well be providing a File Structure just like actual MacOS Finder and Windows My Computer.

- modular, pick the plugins you love - moddable, hack your keymap / hotkeys / write scripts for your own actions and assign them the shortcuts - amazing for dynamic languages that don't require an IDE - lightweight

Not great for java ecosystem compared to intellij - just not as full featured

I have developed software at several companies large and small using atom as my primary editor

Being able to run python scripts without having to open the terminal and try to remember my folder path. Syntax highlighting and customization make coding a breeze.

There isn't much to dislike. Full support for swift would be much appreciated.

I am writing scripts in Python. The app is lightweight and reliable. It never hogs my machine's resources.

I really only use the basics of this tool, so it would be the option to prettify xmls, jsons, etc. The search/find/replace functionality I also like the dark mode a lot :-)

Nothing yet, I only use the basics options of this tool so it fits my needs (and more than that)

It mainly solves the issue that my Mac does not have a text editor in between textEdit.app and Word or something that makes working with xmls and jsons etc. easy (like Notepadd++ on a Windows machine)

I really like its lightweight solution! It is nothing for our CPU. You can add many plugins or additional features which can really help you to save your time and finish your projects on time, for example, code checker, or running in the app itself, or just the one which makes your code more alluring by ordering the codes. Ot the other hand you can easily integrate your codes from any other platforms or text editor which you need to work on it using atom. Atom's simplicity makes it now one of the best text editors for coders.

It gets very slow when you try to add a lot of plugins and it has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on it. On the other hand, some programmers

I work all my projects on it! It doesn't matter if it's a python or web development programs which really saves my time.

Very manimilstic with no visual noise. Atom is a very good IDE to use when programming.

Atom lacks a terminal, which requires the use of an external terminal.

Atom allows for an efficient project directory browsing. It also provides dark themes that fits perfectly with its manimilstic UI. All good ingredients for a good programming experience.

Atom has nice design. Atom has active package community. Atom concepts are similar to other IDE's concepts. So transition is not difficult. You can install few packages and start working on Atom. Free version is rich in features. I personally love the light and dark theme. Atom has many language support. Atom has software for Apple, Windows and Ubuntu.

Atom eats lot of CPU power. It's bit slow compared to sublime text. Sometimes takes time to start up and load. I think by default there’s no project managers but several packages offer that. If you install many packages, Atom will start giving you performance issues.

I use atom as integrated development tool. I use it to code in Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Kotlin etc. I use it for programming and coding. We have integrated Atom with 3rd party plugins for web and mobile decelopment.

You can customize it so much that your code editor can be totally different from your friends not only in looks but also in functionality because so many plugins are available and many things can be thoughtfully customized in unexpected and fun ways. I was a JavaScript developer for a long time and my main tool was Atom, later changed to Java and Atom was still my main editor but the profiles didn't resemble each other at all.

It is not a bad thing on its own but since I enjoy playing with the customization options so much I normally end up tinkering with something new every few weeks and explaining how and why it works the way it does gets harder, especially when explaining something to a coworker and forgetting that a part of the task is automated thanks to the way I have Atom set up.

I tend to code a lot less with my current role but whenever I need to code something Atome is my weapon of choice.

It is really customizable for any needs and you don't have to do it yourself. As long as you have an internet connection you can grab any of the customization snippets or in my case, I got the snippets from my team leader ready to go to work with our APIs and Postman, it also has a direct connection to Git/GitHub so you don't need to leave the editor to commit, push or pull anymore.

It is a really cool editor but it isn't an IDE, it is perfect for my current needs since we are working with an API call at a time but I would not choose this as my main editor for a full development

After I finish the design of the API calls in postman I code them in python so it can be automated in other devices and I use Atom for that.

It's really extensible and customizable in every way that I need and really easy to customize since it is open-source. I have my own addons to make my workflow more efficient and there are many addons like FormData to Postman that make API development easier a few clicks away. As advertised is hackable to the core so my Atom as an API tester may not even approach a java programer API

It's amazing but it isn't a full IDE, when dealing with heavier and more complex projects I tend to use Pycharm because it's easier to keep track of everything. It's a little harder to keep track of dependencies with Atom.

Python and API development and QA

ATOM is one of the best of text editors I enjoy using/ It's a fast program for generating any JavaScript frameworks, particularly in NodeJS. The program offers the right amount of features just by installing plugins. It supports the Git version control system, which has been very useful to me since I do not need an extra Git client software to implement their commands. ATOM also yields the best customizations through extensions thanks to GitHub.

Even though the interface is enjoyable and practical, when developing codes, I realized that I also have to own an account that I found hard to adapt and use. It is time-consuming since, as a beginner, one needs a lot of time to study and understand the program. Another thing that has not impress me about ATOM is that it is hard to install and configure in the Linux Operating System. The editor needs a lot of technical knowledge to install.

I use the program to develop applications in NodeJS. I have been in a position to develop the applications in a better and faster way.

The ability to "hack" the editor to better suite my needs. There's solemnly a need that can't be met by Atom, and it's supported well by its community.

Probably not from the base app — more likely add-ons — but it often pushes my computer more than I feel like it should. Not really sure what's causing my fans to whirl when I'm just editing code, and not sure how to trouble shoot that internally in the app either.

It allows me to work on several different projects & manage them all well, and be customized to my workflow. Pairs will with git. I personally use it a lot for html/css/js projects, and it allows for quick operations & clean code views.

It is a very useful application for coding as it can be used on Windows, Linux, etc. It has an autocomplete feature which helps to write code faster.

Something does not work as expected as it still needs some polish. Some of the codes are not present in the autocomplete feature.

It is very helpful for me when I forget spellings some code, it's one of the main features that help me to complete it without wasting time and it is very easy and reliable to use.

Atom is highly configurable. Also, the Atom is full of packages that can be managed by the command line. Git integration feature is really nice.

Atom is a very heavy software. It takes a lot of time in starting. Also, it becomes slow when working with multiple tabs.

I use Atom as a code editor. Atom is built by Github, therefore the git integration feature is there in Atom and it is extremely helpful.

I like its simple interface and that it's intuitive to use

There are a lot of features I do not know how to use

I used it when I had no good text editor on my laptop

Atom is the code editor I use on a daily basis. Just about every feature I could possibly want for writing code is available either as a standard feature or an extension. It simply just works. Over many years I have used numerous editors and IDEs. Atom became my go to tool without even thinking about it after daily usage. I don't feel I miss out on more visual coding, and compared with similar tools I do not feel there are any better all around. I can't say that Atom is necessarily the best at everything in terms of features, but it has all or most of what I expect, without any unnecessary fluff. And there are few times that I can count where the interface caused me any headaches.

The one thing that seems apparent with Atom is on a lower powered machine it can sometimes be a bit slow. I'm not entirely sure the exact reason why in all cases. I had always assumed it was perhaps memory usage when having too many tabs open. But when I close tabs it doesn't seem to affect the RAM very much. There are a few times where certain features of Atom will open up based on accidental hitting of keystrokes, and it isn't always obvious how to make them go away. I have gotten used to that, but it could be more intuitive. The other annoyances are minor, and cannot claim they a big dislikes.

I need a great tool for coding. Atom delivers. It supports all the languages I use on a regular basis in terms of syntax highlighting. It supports projects and directories. It has a clean interface. And so many more details. There are a few editors that come close, but none quite so good. And it works well as a plain text editor too!

I love atom because it's cross platform, I can use it on Windows, mac or linux and I know it will be stable and work exactly like how I like it.

It sometimes crashes when big files are opened.

I mostly use it to edit every and any document whether it be text files or configuration files.

Atom is one of the best editor and seamlessly integrates with Git workflow CI and CD. reviewing merge request with atom editor is also seamless and we use atom for more than 2 years and it's stable for development across linux, windows and mac. Our organization have adopted atom editor for its stableness and opensource. The updates for the atom editor makes the editor more usable and theme support, auto complete feature is one of my favorite feature.

We didn't have any negative experience with the atom editor until now. Atom editor crashes once in a while loading large files around ~500MB in linux machine.

Product development and coding Git merge request reviewing

Here are the top things I like about atom, this list is a top features I like list Open source: While sublime text is also one of my most favourite text editors, it is not open source, on the other hand Atom is fully open source and it gives me the power or customization. Smart autocomplete: Atom fills in my variable names, function names and pre built constructs, it also matches brackets for me and stops syntax errors even before they happen. Powerful find and replace: Atom's find and replace is not a standard find an replace that is found in word processors, it has powerful Regular expression based finding and overall project based finding that helps us navigate the code flow. Goes hand in hand with Git: Atom is a text editor owned by Github and so it has native git integration, it is possible to stage and commit code from right within the app.

Atom is built on top of Chromium (electron framework), this is both a blessing and a curse, while it is easy to to customize atom with HTML, CSS and JS, it becomes a pain when it comes to memory consumption, a simple text editor should not consume so much RAM.

Atom lets me edit code and maintain large repositories of code possible. Without ATOM I would be wasting my time on a lot of trivial tasks.

The simplicity of this program is what I think makes it amazing. To say simple does not mean that it has few characteristics, rather that the characteristics it has are simple to use, powerful, dynamic, intuitive and very functional. Atom is an editor that manages to perfectly mix the most important elements that a code editor needs, with amazing cleaning, this makes atom an easy-to-use software, as well as powerful.

Although I think atom is a simple but effective code editor, it fails to integrate functions beyond writing and editing code comfortably. I personally think that atom should integrate more tools, which is not difficult considering its great alliance with GitHub and also should offer more customization as far as the editor is concerned.

Atom to date has been the second code editor that I have used most after VS code. therefore in the course of my career I have developed several softwares and functions with him. These softwares range from simple CRUDs, to more sophisticated business management systems. In addition, most of my university projects were done with atom.

Atom provides best interface and themes to start developing and coding. It also provides lot of integrations withing our development process like listing bugs, gitlab integration, trello integration made by in house developers to boost productivity without leaving the editor. the best part is atom editor is opensource and provides lot of regular updates. Additionally atom provides theming option which is really good for customization within the application, we do have build extension built internally.

Atom editor is sluggish when running in 2 GB RAM machines and doesn't scale when using it for development in low configuration machines. other than that we didnt have any negative experience with atom editor

Coding and product development Bug fixing

Atom provides best interface and themes to start developing and coding. It also provides lot of integrations withing our development process like listing bugs, gitlab integration, trello integration made by in house developers to boost productivity without leaving the editor. the best part is atom editor is opensource and provides lot of regular updates.

Atom editor is sluggish when running in 2 GB RAM machines and doesn't scale when using it for development in low configuration machines. other than that we didnt have any negative experience with atom editor

Coding and product development Bug fixing

the best part is atom editor is opensource and provides lot of regular updates. Atom provides best interface and themes to start developing and coding. It also provides lot of integrations withing our development process like listing bugs, gitlab integration, trello integration made by in house developers to boost productivity without leaving the editor.

we didnt have any negative experience with atom editor other than that Atom editor is sluggish when running in 2 GB RAM machines and doesn't scale when using it for development in low configuration machines.

Coding and product development Bug fixing

the best part is atom editor is opensource and provides lot of regular updates. Atom provides best interface and themes to start developing and coding. It also provides lot of integrations withing our development process like listing bugs, gitlab integration, trello integration made by in house developers to boost productivity without leaving the editor.

We didnt have any negative experience with the atom editor

Programming and development reviewing merge request from editor

The coding environment in atom is highly customizable, for increased productivity like applying code formatting on save or saving a code file when the window loses focus. It has a great eco-system of packages with documentations and source code hosted on github

It lakes a bit of time to open and fully load the project files in a folder. The installation does not show progress which can be confusing when the installation takes long

Atom offers a bare bones code editor than can be build up to your specification using the thousands of available themes, packages and plugins.

Atom is a really useful code editor, i think is the easiest to learn and use. Additionally atom works hand by hand with GitHub and that’s what makes atom one of the best code esitors

Maybe for advance software developer atom can be boring and featureless, but i personally think that it isn’t that bad and featureless. Is all a perspective cuestion

I have been using atom since i was 13 years old and i have done a lot of web aplications, games and tons of stuff with it.

Atom is a new entrant to text editing software market. It is packed with a lot of features. Personally, I like that you can code your own Atom, since it is open-source. I have created number of plugins that I shared on community forums and I also downloaded some addins from these forums.

I dislike that Atom is not widespread app. I think if community increased, there would not be any competition on this niche market. Atom would dominate every device and operating system.

Atom has made my life much easier. Writing scripts takes much less time and codes look very beautiful.

Atom is a really great text editing application. Its biggest pros are integration with GitHub. You can easily pull requests and do any operation with this application. I think Atom offers users great collaboration services, it is very easy for multiple users to collaborate and work on the same file. In addition to its outstanding features, Atom is an open-source application which makes it highly customizable.

Atom autocomplete feature seems to be buggy if you are using this software solely for coding. If language is not recognized or supported you need to install plugins which are very tedious things to do.

Atom provides users with modern text editing software with IDE features which creates a synergy that no competitor can match.

I liked because is fast and light weight. It works similar as Sublime, but definitely way better and fast.

Sometimes it get stuck and blocked so I have to reload the app. The use of plugins sometimes is weird and they might not be developed for the operator system and they dont work as expected.

I'm a web developer, so Im using Atom for my day to day base.

Atom is the application that I came across a year ago. Since then, it has become my daily driver. It is full of features and customization possibilities are nearly endless. Everyone can customize its functionality and make it do whatever they want. In addition to its features and user-friendly interface, the application is free to use and open-source.

Comparing Atom with other text editors, it seems to me that advantages are obvious. When it comes to weaknesses, one big weakness for Atom is compatibility. It only works on Windows devices. Personally, I have no problem with that, but there are people who desperately want to have it on other operating systems.

Assigning shortcuts on text editor seems to increase my efficiency by decreasing the time I need to do something manually. Not only that its smart autocompletion also helped me on countless occasions.