Atom Reviews & Product Details

Atom is a great text editor that is very intuitive and easy to use. The text editor also has a great design, layout and aesthetics.

The one thing that I wish Atom included was a global search function. I use this feature in Visual Studio Code and I think it is extremely helpful with Software Development.

Atom serves as a text editor for both my personal and professional web development projects. Atom has great color schemes and extensions to choose from.

Lots of themes, access to source code, plugins which add convenient features like a built-in terminal.

Slow startup, latency, eats a lot of memory. Other editors, like Vim or TextEdit, are more suited for specific scenarios.

Atom removes a lot of the friction to making code changes. Less time is spent typing and fixing syntax errors, and more time is spend writing good tests and developing solutions.

Atom is a simple and easy to use text editor. There are a ton of plugins to expand the functionality and customize it to your particular programming environment. The global search is great for finding those missing files. It is still a relatively new product but has huge potential and the community is only making it better everyday.

It seems like it can get slow sometimes and it has its quirks like any text editor. Autosave has to be enabled and the level of customization that you can do can make it hard to use too.

As a programmer, I am always open to new editors as a way to keep current. You need to be comfortable on any computer and any editor so that you can work and trouble shoot with coworkers. Atom is a lightweight editor that is pretty easy to use out of the box.

I like the lightweight app , otherwise i had to use eclipse which is very heavy. Plugins are awesome.

hangs sometimes with plugins. hsvr to reinstall the plugins,

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There are a tons of plugins that you can add in order to build a development environment fitting as much as possible your "style of work". Atom itself is fully customizable being a web application.

Some times is very slow and force me to restart the application.

Once installed the right plugins I improved my productivity.

I love Atom because it's easy to use, making coding smoother for me. Also, it supports many programming languages, which is super handy.

Sometimes, i feel a bit slow when handling really large files or projects.

It lets me write code for various programming languages, saving time and making the coding process smoother overall.

Atom's UI is pretty similar to Visual Studio, and I find it to be pretty easy to read and manage. Github integration is pretty easy and I've never had it crash.

There's nothing in particular that I dislike other than the fact that there's more support available for other more popular IDEs.

I've been able to use Atom as a code editor to edit applications I've built. It's easy to push code to Github and it's been a good alternative to VS Code.

The Application UI is completely customizable, so it feels like you own the environment in which you work.

Not many plugins and support for the same. But some customizatons built on Atom and new Interfaces have proved themselves to be better. IntelliJ and VScode are some examples where the support and extensions have reached an amazing level.

We use atom in day to day programming and polishing out gitops structure for all other tools.

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.

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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++.