#1 most frequent
United States of America
76.9%10 installations of 13
What is Atom?
Atom is a free and open source text editor offering a range of packages and themes.
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Who Buys & Uses Atom
#2 most frequent
Belgium
7.7%1 installation of 13
#3 most frequent
Japan
7.7%1 installation of 13
Joyful coding
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Atom for coding emails. I was having a weird problem with Dreamweaver (the licensed software my team uses) for which the program would lag, despite having the same machine as other members... so I picked Atom, which I knew was freely available and I had used in a previous job.
Atom works flawlessly, it's super lightweight, and has wonderful themes that are really pleasing to the eye compared to Dreamweaver or Visual Studio Code
Pros
- Lightweight
- Beautiful themes
- Plugins
- Customisable
- Easily integrates with version control
Cons
- remember window configuration (reopens always the same panels despite closing them)
- remember code preferences (I use word wrap and i have to switch it on every document)
Return on Investment
- The ROI is incredible, because the software is free and solid, so it's a no brainer to use
- Speed: being light and with good shortcuts and find/replace functions, you can work fast
- Side-by-side coding: there is a feature to scroll two documents at the same time, which would be great for code comparison, but it doesn't work well for me (one panel lags behind/falls out of sync very quickly)
Alternatives Considered
Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Notepad++
Other Software Used
Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe XD, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox
Atom is a Good looking free editor and scripting tool for developers
Pros
- HTML, CSS, PHP and other code or text editing
- Project collaboration with team and developers
- Free and Open Source
- Good looking interface
- Colour coded syntax
Cons
- High start-up time
Most Important Features
- Real time previews
- Git Hub integration
- Colour coded syntax
- Find and replace
- Project collaboration / shared editing
Return on Investment
- No negative ROI
Alternatives Considered
Sublime Text
Other Software Used
Trello, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Divi, Discord
Atom - A simplest, finest , open-source text editor
Pros
- Adding packages in preferable language
- Formatting of code making it easy to read for all users
- Support for GitHub and plugins and plugin development
- It is able to handle large amounts of data without slowing down
Cons
- There should be a better user tips manual page to learn keyboard shortcuts
- It would also be beneficial if mathematical and data analytic tools were added
- it has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on it
- Sometimes, atom closed suddenly and do not open again
- It still lacks better options with the previews even though there are already some by users adding plugins
- It doesn't have self-correct features for lint errors, unlike IntelliJ
Most Important Features
- Support for Github, Plugins and Plugin development
- Support for many languages
- Support for many operating systems
- UI is very good, has three column layout, syntax highlighting feature and much more
- Fast coding with good error detection
- It is moddable - hack your keymap / hotkeys / write scripts for your own actions and assign them the shortcuts
Return on Investment
- ROI can be said as neutral because eventually, we have to switch to another text editor because of many limitations of Atom for large code.
- In starting stage of the project, everything was fine and things were happening as expected
- Overall it has been a great experience using Atom in my organization but many challenges were faced so that's something Atom should work on.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text and Vim
Other Software Used
Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, GitHub
Atom editor - multi-cursor mode for the win!
Pros
- Atom has an amazing plugin library that is easy to use and integrates seamlessly.
- Specifically, Atom's multi-cursor plug-in functionality provides a powerful method for manipulating text in bulk.
- Atom provides good syntax highlighting and other interactive support for a number of programming languages through its available plug-ins.
Cons
- Some of Atom's default UX could be improved. Depending on your previous workspace, it can open with two panes and a welcome tab in each, requiring you to close lots of cruft on startup.
- Atom's documentation and plugin marketplace could be a little more discoverable.
Return on Investment
- As mentioned before, Atom is highly effective for bulk text editing. This has proven useful when moving information quickly from one format to another (e.g., free-form word document into more structured formats like CSV).
- Atom is only particularly useful in the hands of someone with a high degree of technology proficiency; as a result its impact has been limited at my organization due to varied levels of technical skill.
- Atom has been useful for basic coding and scripting in Javascript (most recently, building an OpenStreetMap visualization).
Alternatives Considered
GNU Emacs and Eclipse
Other Software Used
Eclipse, Apache Tomcat
Highly Customizable IDE With Excellent Git Integration
Pros
- Git integration
- Plugin ecosystem
- C++ development
Cons
- Sometimes things do not work as expected. Atom has improved a lot over the last couple of years, but it still could use some polish.
- Atom needs plugins for quality-of-life improvements. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it allows you to customize Atom to suit your needs.
- It would be nice if Atom had some recommended starter packages that come with popular plugins for highlighting, soft-wrapping and so on.
- There are some plugins that could be turned into core Atom features, like Linter and Beautify.
Return on Investment
- Atom has made writing C++ code more enjoyable.
- Atom has taken a decent amount of time to configure with plugins, but in my opinion, it was worth it.
- Atom has helped us reach our business objectives of writing quality C++ code and working on the JNI layer for Android apps which have a native code component.
Alternatives Considered
Eclipse, Sublime Text, Visual Studio IDE and NetBeans
Other Software Used
GitHub, Eclipse, Sublime Text