Atom vs. Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Atom

90 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

908 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Atom	Score9.6 out of 10	N/A	Atom is a free and open source text editor offering a range of packages and themes.	N/A
Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.	$0

Pricing

Atom

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Pricing Offerings
Atom	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Atom	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Considered Both Products	Open Source Flavio Mauri CRM Designer in Marketing at Asda (Supermarkets, 10,001+ employees) Chose Atom Atom is incredibly lighter than Dreamweaver, of course it doesn't have the tools DW provides in terms of preview and clicking an element to be taken to the code... but for small web pages this is not necessary. Atom is more similar to Notepad++ and the very popular vs code... … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Atom For the cost, there isn't another text editor or IDE that has more features, more supports, and better integration with packages than Atom. It may take a bit to get used to it, but once familiar, it's very efficient and feature-packed. I find that developers who put in the time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Atom Our company likes to keep things open, and we don't want to prevent developers from customizing their environment the way they want. Atom seemed to be a lot more open than our existing tools and has good community support on pretty much any programming language. This can create … Incentivized Helpful? Deepshi Sharma Software Engineer in Engineering at Kognoz Consulting (E-Learning, 11-50 employees) Chose Atom In beginning stage of project, Atom wins the race against them all. I selected Atom because of its support for many plugins, simplicity, formatting tools, open source control . But for large scale projects, atom is not suitable editor because of its unexpected behaviour in case … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Atom Atom supports multiple programming languages with debugging options. Other IDEs also have these features but speed matters. I sometimes feel negative about plugins in Atom but all else is good. PyCharm is very heavy as compared to others. VSCode and Sublime are good. Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Fong Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Iterable (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose Atom As I've explained earlier, I genuinely believe that VSCode is a superior editor in most ways (stability, feature development, the vibrancy of the community, wealth of plugins, performance). There is, however, one more editor to consider, and that is Sublime Text. Sublime Text I … Incentivized Helpful? Suleman Ahmad Senior Software Developer - NodeJS/Express, Angular, MVC Framework in Engineering at CareAxiom (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Atom NetBeans was a big application in terms of size, so it usually takes more time when starting development. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Atom Atom and Visual Studio Code are so similar it's hard to not compare them. But for new users, Atom is the clear winner. If you are looking for a clean interface, Atom is the winner. There aren't as many buttons and distractions in Atom which makes it very easy to just pick up … Incentivized Helpful? Chaithra Kamath Local Software Developer in Information Technology at KudlaRoot (Consumer Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Atom We needed an opensource program to tailor it to our needs. It was also stable enough to handle small to medium projects. It had one of the best built-in GIT integration. It has a clean UI. The simplicity of Atom is why we use it to train new members. Incentivized Helpful? Dylan Cauwels DevOps Engineer in Engineering at CBRE (Real Estate, 10,001+ employees) Chose Atom Atom was a program I was familiar with when starting at the company. VSCode, however, has grown in popularity since I've started, and I might switch over in a bit. At this point, it's honestly personal preference. Both platforms have a large user base and accomplish the same … Incentivized Helpful? Violeta Calvo Ilundain Research and Development Engineer in Engineering at Brozerly (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Atom Atom is made by the GitHub Team and has a Git native integration. I've found it more complete and easy to cusomize than the others. Incentivized Helpful? Abraham García Web Development Manager in Information Technology at Newsbp.co (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 11-50 employees) Chose Atom Previously we used Sublime Text but we have changed to Atom because it is open source and has more packages that can be installed. In this way, we saved the money we were paying in licenses and we have invested in improving the hardware of each of the computers in our office. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Atom Atom is more up to date with features than Sublime is. VS Code is also a really great code editor, but I find Atom more enjoyable overall. The UI and theming is a little nicer, and some of the shortcuts are more similar to Sublime which I was previously used to using. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Satbir Singh MIS Analyst in Research & Development at RHDL (BPO Unit) (Information Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It has [the] right balance of solutions for [a] wide range of problems. Atom or Notepad++ are lighter but [have fewer] features, [Microsoft] Visual Studio [Code] is full of features but [a] tad heavier. Incentivized Helpful? Sean Patterson Software Development Director in Information Technology at Fresh Consulting (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code has turned out to be far more powerful than the original promises of the Atom editor. Microsoft Visual Studio Code supports large files much better than Atom, and more extensions are available for language support. NetBeans has been a slower … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code There are many IDEs available but I don't think anyone is better than Visual Studio Code. Most others are language dependent softwares while VS Code supports all the languages. There are others popular available like Atom, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and WebStorm but none of them … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Mason Lead Developer in Engineering at SaaSquatch (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I've used Eclipse and NetBeans for Java development and VS Code was easily competitive with NetBeans but I still haven't found the development experience to be as good as Eclipse when working with Java. I've also used the Visual Studio IDE for C# development and have generally … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code We evaluated both Sublime and Atom, and while they are both great tools, they did fall short of the one-stop shop that is Visual Studio Code. The integrations with Docker, Live Share, Azure app services all add to making this a single tool for all our needs. Without having to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code For our software dev teams, they still use the products from JetBrains (PhpStorm, RubyMine, etc) when they are laser-focused on one technology. For our less experienced, less code specific web dev team, Microsoft Visual Studio Code knocks it out of the park. I'd recommend … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I like VS Code a lot more than Atom. VS Code is a little more intuitive. Incentivized Helpful? Keegan Gladstone Software Developer in Engineering at DataHouse (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I used Sublime Text in my introductory years for its syntax highlighting and some customization support. Atom quickly grew to a more powerful IDE with their ability for extensions so that was an easy change. I found that Atom didn't run as reliably as I had hoped, and had … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Hardy Software Architect in Information Technology at Premier Designs, Inc (Retail, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code We had better luck with VS Code than Atom. We tried to like Atom pretty hard, but it just had some clunkiness and some unintuitive things that caused us to give up on it. Webstorm seems to be a much more capable competitor. The main pro of VS Code over Webstorm is that VS … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Garnhart Research & Development: Product Intern in Product Management at Bandwidth Inc. (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code is much more lightweight than IntelliJ and Eclipse and is certainly comparable to Atom. I find that for most of my projects, VS Code is the most stable option, and is generally the quickest to boot. Generally, trying out all four can't hurt, but VS Code has been the … Incentivized Helpful? Rohit Pansare Web Developer in Information Technology at TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It's faster than Sublime Text and Atom. I used to use Atom and shifted to Microsoft Visual Studio Code one to two years back. I've never used any other editor after using Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Atom's installation is long and painful compared to Studio Code's. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I used Atom before using Visual Studio Code. Atom is slow, has higher memory usage and crashes sometimes. Also, Visual Studio Code has thousands of extensions in comparison to Atom. Atom is not suitable for slow or old computers. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Folts Digital Strategist at Sherpa Design Co. (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code and Atom are very similar, but VSC has clearly won out. The extension library is even bigger, and the community only continues to grow. VSC has some nice layout features, like the icons bar to get to common features and a really nice settings/customization editor. I … Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code is one of the peak engineering tools you can use today on the market. It's one of the most advanced IDE, and, currently, a de-facto top-used IDE. This alone should be proof to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code beats the competition due to its extensibility. Their robust extensions architecture combined with the plethora of mostly free extensions written by the community can't be beaten. The fact that this tool itself is provided by a world-recognized … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Every IDE has almost the same features but being lightweight is a plus point for the IDE so that you can run on any hardware with good speed. VS Code has ultimate features. Incentivized Helpful? Saad Moumen Software Engineer in Information Technology at Cheuvreux (Legal Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code The main plus for me was the speed, sleek UI, and the memorable shortcuts for VS Code. Also the smart auto-complete as well as version management (Git), Chrome debugging, and the possibility of plugging in multiple language-specific linters for a better code. The auto-complete … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I selected this software because it had enormously useful features, which weren't available in any other similar products in the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code does everything better than the previously mentioned software; it improves visual code and overall application visualization. It is easy to use as everything is at hand with shortcuts allowing to improve development time. It is so lightweight that … Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Fong Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Iterable (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code As I explained above, definitely switch to VSCode unless you are heavily invested/comfortable with the alternatives, in which case it may not be worth it for now. Vim users may differ, but did I mention VSCode also has a highly integrated and mature Vim plugin? I used to be a Vi… Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft provides regular update patches to the Visual Studio Code IDE making sure to prevent vulnerabilities. As compared to other editors as mentioned, it is not open source but free to use, which means only certified update patches can be applied to the IDE, whereas in open … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Purely on the fact that support and having the app frequently updated alone makes this worthwhile over the others. Some of them also do share the ease of installation, but Microsoft Visual Studio Code has all the common pro points and more, making it a natural selection. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code is easy to install, always updated, free, and ultra-customizable with extensions. All other alternatives either don't have these features or are not as great as VS Code in terms of implementing them. I have been using Microsoft VS Code for a year … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Sacramento Developer in Information Technology at McGill University (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code In my opinion, VS Code is the best option for coding. It works on Windows, GNU/Linux, and macOS. Moreover, there's a great team/community behind the scene to maintain this program. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code has the advantage of being free to use, open source, and very customizable and lightweight. Some of the other text editors/IDE's lack some of these key features that I consider to be of extreme importance, and Visual Studio Code can be tailored to … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Atom	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (31 ratings)	8.6 (90 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.4 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)	8.5 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (13 ratings)	9.7 (23 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)