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Atom Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

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What is Atom?

Atom is an open-source text editor used by software developers. The platform is free and features tools that allow cross-platform editing, code autocomplete and Git integration. With Atom, developers can streamline workflows while ensuring better collaboration with team members with the goal of creating high-quality software.

Company GitHub, Inc.
Year founded 2008
Company size 501-1000 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
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765 Atom Reviews
4.4 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 07, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
HK
Harish K.
Developer And Customer Support
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"Best Coding environment"
What do you like best about 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.

What do you dislike about Atom?

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

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coding and product development Bug fixing

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 07, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
RK
Ram K.
Member Technical Staff
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"Best Coding environment"
What do you like best about 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.

What do you dislike about Atom?

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

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coding and product development Bug fixing

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 07, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SR
Suresh R.
Developer And Dev Ops
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"Best IDE for Coding workflow"
What do you like best about Atom?

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.

What do you dislike about Atom?

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.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coding and product development Bug fixing

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 07, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DK
Dinesh K.
Developer And Product Manager
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"Best Programming Tool and Opensource"
What do you like best about Atom?

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.

What do you dislike about Atom?

We didnt have any negative experience with the atom editor

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Programming and development reviewing merge request from editor

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 06, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DN
David N.
I.T Technician
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"Lightweight code editor with thousands of packages. "
What do you like best about Atom?

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

What do you dislike about Atom?

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

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

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

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 31, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"How Good is Atom for Beginners and advanced programmers"
What do you like best about Atom?

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

What do you dislike about Atom?

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

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 23, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Inga G. avatar
Inga G.
Business Analyst
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"Wonderful App with great features"
What do you like best about Atom?

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.

What do you dislike about Atom?

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.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

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

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 21, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Giorgi I. avatar
Giorgi I.
Data Scientist
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"My favourite Text Editing Software"
What do you like best about Atom?

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.

What do you dislike about Atom?

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.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

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

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 17, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DO
Daniel O.
Backend Developer
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"Atom for the best"
What do you like best about Atom?

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

What do you dislike about Atom?

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.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

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

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 15, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Giovanni G. avatar
Giovanni G.
Freelance Analyst
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"Really Great Text Editor"
What do you like best about Atom?

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.

What do you dislike about Atom?

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.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.