Atom Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

Customizable nature with optional packages

Lots of relative link errors for linters

I use it to edit js code. Works better as js linter than pycharm. Very easy to add new folders, rename, search, and quickly select all instances of highlighted word

Atom is very simple to use, and lets you easily install packages for a lot of use cases. I

There's not much to dislike about atom, since it's very customizable to your individual needs.

Atom lets the coders code, without much fuss.

With last addition of atom-ide, atom has all I need for development. And if there is something missing, you just find plugin for that. Git support is nice, I almost don't have to use command line thanks to git-plus.

Scrolling can be sometimes slower, but it's improving. Better support for iOS app development is missing. Hopefully thanks to language server (atom-ide) this will improve.

Writing source code, writing documentation in markdown with live preview.

I like everything about the atom. It is free. It is easy to work on it. It has all the plugins that I need. It has git support. It is extremely customization and good looking.

It looks and works differently on different operating systems.

I am writing greatest code on it. And atom increases my productivity 10 times.

It is free, full of features, and hackable to the core. Built with package manager that make easily to install or remove package. Autocompletion not perfect but we can install better autocomplete with autocomplete plus in package manager. And don't forget if atom have a lot of support from Github crew.

- It is heavy and slow to load and eat much RAM. So it is not recommended for <1GB RAM computer. - It cannot handle files bigger than a couple MB's

We can save bucks for full of features text editor.

I love that Atom is fully customizable. It comes with loads of default options and you're able to change loads of things to make Atom fit your workflow better. You can add custom packages by name and install it with the click of a button. Users can create and upload their creations, and you can also download popular packages among Atom users. WordPress users will feel comfortable using Atom. Most of all, it's free!

It has a tendency to be a bit slow upon starting. Performance wise, Atom can also be slow, especially with large files and projects, and may take up a lot of memory.

I've been able to edit my personal projects with absolute ease. I personally enjoy editing on my MacBook Pro, which works very good with Atom. Being able to take my work on the go with a reliable text editor has been a great benefit to my company.

The interface and ease of use besides the free download is amazing.

It can't write the code for you! But it does the next best thing in calling out either by color or by error message errors in the coding.

Everything from custom html email signatures to snippets for websites and debugging code

I love that Atom is an extensible open source text editor with a large community of support and development.

The load time of a new editor from the command line is too slow. When I'm working through an interactive git rebase, I want the text editor for git to be fast to load.

Writing software and markdown documents every day. I have a curated set of packages and themes that allows for me to quickly write code across several languages.

Atom is as simple or as complex as you want it to be. There are thousands of high quality packages to install to customize it to your needs and preferences. Linters, code completion, snippets, etc. Users can also create custom snippets for repeated tasks, like AngularJS boilerplate.

It's built on chromium, so it's a bit a memory hog, and initial startup can be a bit long (especially if you have many packages installed). It's also built on CoffeeScript and uses CSON, which I'm not the biggest fan of, though that's more of a personal preference.

Atom is a free, easy to use and easy to customize Code Editor that can become an IDE with the right packages installed. It makes it easy for our developers to code without their tools getting in the way.

Shortcuts and packages galore. I haven't yet found something I can't custom personalize to my liking.

I dislike that sometimes package errors are vague and can halt your development process by raising errors on every keystroke. If the issue is major, that's acceptable, but it's usually minor or with a non-vital package that shouldn't be that interrupting.

Most of my business processes involve writing code. I use Atom for 100% of that. My process is clear and easy to follow because of all of the customized packages I've added to Atom.

its very intuitive and easy to use, not necesary learning curve, with the right plugins yo can build the world

its a little slow to start, it get freeze to start, its nothing to do with the usefull of the tool but its not good

we improve the time of web development, and app development oriented specially to frontend development

Atom is the best code editor. He is like sublime 2 but open source and it has a great community behind it that adds a lot to it. Every part of it is a "plugin" and the community has thousands of plugins to do anything you want. Also it is easy to create a new pĺugin yourself, it's pure javascript, and you can also contribute to your favorite plugin or one you use in its github.

Code completion is not great but for a light code editor is worth it

I use to do my programming in almost any language. I have done a lot of projects using it

- Easy to update - Easy to customize - Lots of support and packages - Never crashes, works great. - Project view works well

It can be a bit of a memory hog sometimes

We use Atom to develop all of our applications at our company. It's certainly helped speed up development and the structure of our code.

Both the code interpretation and the community run packages you can download, it keeps it relevant. For example, when writing php inside of an html element, the code will interpret both the html code and the php code inside the php tags. An example of the packages keeping the software relevant, I recently started using typescript language, which is very new. Instead of having to find a new text editor that will support type script, I just opened the install packages tap in the menu and searched for a typescript interpreter, and sure enough there were several.

Import from our old system isn’t supported yet

It replaces at least 2 tools that I used to have to pay for, so now I can save money and teach new employees half tools.

Atom is a great tool when used with MavensMate for development in Salesforce. It has full lightning support, and you can save you changes to the Server immediately on saving your page. Also great use for syntax highlighting

Not as good for source control, but the pros out weight the cons

Developing complex code in Salesforce with a structure that highlights and predicts your code for ease of use

How extensible it is and how much it can increase your productivity.

That it isn't fully developed yet. It is definitely ready for production use, but I just can't wait for it to be complete. There also needs to be a way to have multiple projects open without adding another window. It doesn't really add more resources, but it would just be cleaner and less complicated.

I have used Atom as my full-time development editor and have had so much added productivity thanks to just a few of the many features it has.

Their plugins options for open source projects are really nice, the community are really strong making really nice plugins. I really like the fact that they have an terminal command to open files, it's pretty cool

For large files their processing systems isn't that good, some times it doesn't process a really large file making me go back to others text editors

I change my IDE to atom, instead of using an really heavy IDE I'm using atom even though it is really lightweight it has such a good number of features.

The functionality where you can add additional features to an edit is best. The package manager is installed by default and to make things even better, all packages are hosted on Github. Atom is rather smooth when compared to other editors.

sometimes it still persists the performance issues. It takes a bit of time getting your plugins and configuration sorted

I've been using Atom as my everyday text editor for about 9-months. I use it to write C, C++, Java and Python programs. I had that many packages installed. I had a good impression of the user interface.

I love the modularity. When you first install Atom it's essentially a glorified text editor, but the number of add-ons and plugins is really what transforms this into an IDE. It's excellent at doing only exactly what you need, being lightweight, and being customizable to precisely your needs. The thing I really love about Atom is that I have every piece of functionality tuned to the way I work. While that can involve messing with configurations, I love the tweaking to optimize my workflow. If that sounds like your personality, then I would highly recommend Atom to you.

I dislike that it does require some setup to get going. Once I set it up once, I simply saved my preferences and plugins and now when I need to set up a new instance I can use that. Doing the research to figure out what you need can be time wasted when you could be using something more fully-featured with everything right out of the box.

I have written better and faster code. The plugins I use have significantly improved my workflow and made it a delight to open up and code every day.

With Atom you have a very slim editor for languages like HTML, CSS, PHP, etc. Like the most editor these days it higlights code of interpreter-languages. The search is very quick, even over a lot of files with code/text. Managing little projects is very easy and fast. After all the Atom-Editor is very flexible, easy to use and just needs to "install" temp.

Hard one, really :-). Because of the nature of the product there is not a negative aspect.

Recplacing Strings over more than 50 files...this is my personal usage. Using it for the file-edit is the way for all editors, so. Of course just the view over some code is common in every project, such as searching.

The high variety of available themes and plugins that allow you to customize your text editor at such point that you are gonna love it. Furthermore, I like a lot the session history (it's magical); it "remember" a lot of steps even though after restart it, which is really useful when you want to revert some changes. And last but not least, the updates; they are frequent and always improve important details.

The startup time is kinda slow (v1.15.0 x64), even though it has been improving A LOT after each release. Also, it slow or it crash when you are working with big files (e.g. a big JSON), which is painful and sometimes ridiculous.

Since there are other available options, they aren't free. So I was looking for a solution awesome and free and that's what I found; a fabulous text editor, highly customizable, modern and free.

The thing I like best with Atom, as a text editor, is its environment which is very customizable to suit your needs. It's a lightweight text editor and it doesn't come with pre-installed bloatware. You have the freedom to choose the tools you want to install to help you get the job done. Do you want your HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc. tags to close automatically? Do you want your files to be split into multiple windows? Or maybe you just want to add awesome explosive effects whenever you are in a coding streak? With Atom, you can download many free packages and themes made by other users to personalize your text editor--to make it feel your own unique IDE. Oh, and don't forget the awesome community, whom you could easily ask for help or tips in fully utilizing the functionality and aesthetics of Atom.

Based on my experience, there is nothing I dislike with Atom in its current state. Well, of course it can be improved, but nothing should be removed. I believe Atom is going into the right direction.

With Atom, I have found out that a text-editor can be fast and functional at the same time. I've realized that an IDE can be powerful and be equipped with useful tools but still fast and easy to use.

I call it a text editor just minus the intelligent code completion. Love the themes offered and the formatting, indentation, color coding. Its perfect! Even for basic notes! Pretty UI too :)

They should let us make our own themes! Apart from that nothing else honestly. It is just perfect. And also kinda of addictive. My coworkers also noticed and switched for good!

Coding, automating tasks. Been using atom for all my coding tasks.

Easy to use and a lot of plugins available for almost every aspect of development, like CSS colors, code hints, PHP errors on real time, etc. Themes are amazing, specially the dark themes.

Sometimes it´s slow on OSX, sometimes freeze or takes time to load

It´s faster than an IDE, sometimes only need to review or change some lines and there´s no need to load the entire IDE

There are a lot of short cuts and hot keys that make development easy and efficient. Easy to understand and I have never had an issue using it at work. Also recommended to fellow students. Searching within projects is made very easy, and navigation between files is quick.

On some very long lines the syntax highlighting gets messed up. I wish I could see a diff for the branch I am on, some git integration would be nice. I also wish csv or tsv files would display nicer, as they currently show as one long line. Coping JSON text, or opening a JSON file should print the information in a nice format rather than a long line of text.

The business I works for solves data management problems for eCommerce. Atom has helped us to write code efficiently without hassle. After using a few different text editors I have realized that Atom is easiest to use. I don't have to think about how to use the editor, and instead can focus on the work at hand. * Note Minimum code shown in screenshot for privacy reasons.

My files are easily accessed from the left sidebar so switching back and forth between my HTML and CSS files is quick. I also like that I can see tips for what code I need to use based on the statements I am typing. Color coded syntax makes code stand out well when doing a quick scan of the code. I like that it highlights beginning and ending declarations so you can quickly find open-ended code and fix it.

I would like it to color code or somehow break up sections which would ease navigation through long files; though this may be a feature I just haven't found yet.

Writing code for a law firm's website. I like that I have complete control over the code yet it is organized in a readable way.

Atom is easy to customize and the preinstalled dark and light themes are visually appealing, plus there's many community themes that can be installed. The autocomplete feature is smart and helps you write code quickly. Multiple panes make it easy to compare and edit code. It's easy to get started and ideal for users learning to code.

Finding files and working with large files can be difficult and cumbersome.

As a newbie coder, Atom is appealing in that it's free and open source, while visually more streamlined and intuitive than other free options. It was easy to use throughout the learning process and as I've begun coding professionally for clients. While other code editors may be faster and more robust, Atom provides a low barrier to entry for those new to code editors.

the level of Customatization that atom have, i can turn it into my own, i can change the layout, the colors, the panel's position, everthing and it's super easy, and plugins you can find are realy easy to install and have a very good community where you can find help if you need to. Also, Did i mention that is totally free?, yes, everthing is free,

The download site, some times can be so slow i even prefer to download it from another source.

i can focus totally on the work i am doing, i can link to my githug account and make push and pulls through my coding proccess, making the workflow really fast.

ATOM is the best editor available. Add ons available make life so easy

Indentation is not proper at times, manual intendation is irritating

Writing software codes using ATOM and then running them

i liked how i didnt have to have the reminder sublime gave me lol. and it just feels cooler then sublime

atom crashes sometimes for no reason.... whenever I use a terminal package sometimes the packages dont do anything, not necessiraly atoms fault but maybe have a go to package endorsed by the atom team?

use atom at work.