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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 66 reviews and ratings

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 121 reviews and ratings

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Pros

Atom is highly customizable and allows for various themes and extensions that can make your code easier to read.
Atom has many code hinting features that allow users to write faster and integrate with services likeLINT that can clean up your code once your done to meet your internal teams style choices.
It's very fast and manages projects well - Accessing other files within a related folder(s) is very easy and intuitive.
It's free!

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Mark Nowowiejski

Sr. Instructional Designer

Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and QualityEducation Management, 10,001+ employees

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Pipelines: Gitlab Pipelines is an excellent way to get started with pipelines easily and without much overhead. And with it being all encapsulated within Gitlab itself, it makes integrating your code into that pipeline even easier. Just a little bit of code and VOILA. You have at least a minimum viable pipeline.
VCS: Gitlab is, of course, a great version control system.
Usability: Gitlab has really put a significant amount of focus into usability. They've drilled down and ensured that the way companies and individuals need to use the tool, they can.
Groups: Gitlab makes setting permissions on projects extremely easy. Other version control systems make it more difficult to set things granular enough, but gitlab allows you to group things in a granular enough way for your projects.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Due to some default settings, when I opened the file in Atom and commit it on Git it shows almost every line is changed so my PR is looking too big/ugly.
I think omitting the empty spaces should not be the default setting.
Performance needs some attention.

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Senior Software Developer - NodeJS/Express, Angular, MVC Framework

CareAxiomComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Third-party integrations. Many developer tools integrate deeply with GitHub, but lack support for Gitlab. Gitlab does have webhook support so it's possible to build your own integrations, but this can be time-consuming.
Gitlab's main competitor (GitHub) has a massive social network of coders and hosts nearly all popular open source projects. If you are looking for this type of community, Gitlab may not be for you.
Customer support & reliability. In the time I've used Gitlab, it's not uncommon to experience hours-long periods of downtime without any announcement or indication from the support team when it will be available again.

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Founder

finbox.ioInternet, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Atom 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Well Atom is open source so the re-new is a no brainer. The only way I would stop using Atom is if the developers somehow made it not function well. Or, if the project got forked to a commercial version or something. Or, there could be the case that development stops or that it was not updated on this or that platform

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Jason Smith, DPA

Instructional Technologist

Pomona CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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GitLab 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Gitlab is the best in its segment. They have a free version, they have open-source software, they provide a good service with their SaaS product, they are a fully-remote company since the beginning (which means they are fully distributed and have forward-thinking IMO). I would certainly recommend them to everyone.

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Willian Molinari

Backend Engineer

DoistInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Atom 9.0

Based on 2 answers

I give Atom a 9 because it is one of the most modern text editors built with JavaScript intentionally to allow the editor to be changed and modified with custom functionality that a team may need. I think I would otherwise give atom an 8 due to support, but it gets a 9/10 because of the extensibility/plugin capability.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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GitLab 8.7

Based on 4 answers

The web console management is superior and I would have given Gitlab a 10, but sometimes it is hard to find documentation about a configuration setting in the gitlab.rb configuration file. As we move everything to code that means moving our CVS tools to code as well - and Gitlab to code. The usability of Gitlab from the end user's perspective is superior and the usability from the operations team is very good and getting better but there could be a little improvement in the gitlab.rb config file layout and documentation.

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Managing Member

ZenPan Technology Solutions, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Atom 8.3

Based on 26 answers

I never got to reach out to the support team for an urgent/critical matter, but simple functionality or features that required understanding, or submitting a feature request found after using the product for specific use (specific javascript coding features that could be done through other products)

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IT Security Engineer

SofttekHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees

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GitLab 8.5

Based on 20 answers

I will admit, being an enterprise Gitlab user may come with additional access to Gitlab support. With that said, I have found them to be very supportive and responsive when prompted with questions about the tool. The engineers I've worked with have been very keen to listen to feedback from my team and have taken it back as suggestions for improvements to the tool.

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Michael Jenkins

Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

Atom 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Just download and install

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Jason Smith, DPA

Instructional Technologist

Pomona CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Compared to coding programs, I've found Brackets to be more robust. Some aspects of Atom I've found to be somewhat cumbersome (JSON customization when GUI should be an option), but ultimately Atom is a better experience. Other programs like Dreamweaver tend to be clunky and promise more than they deliver. While basic text edit programs may "do the trick," there is no reason to search further than Atom.

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Creative Director

Lake Superior Christian ChurchReligious Institutions, 1-10 employees

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Easy to use - The interface is almost similar to one of the competitors acquired by microsoft.Security - Security is well maintained as Basic Auth plus SSH options both are present and can be utilised organisation wise to improve the authorisation part.Cost effective - Its better compared to the other competitors out there in terms of cost for various team sizes.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

There really was no ROI for us using or not using Atom, positive or negative.
The only positive thing I can think of is that I got some face time with the software and realized it just was not for me.

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Systems Administrator | Research & Development

AIKG LLCEntertainment, 501-1000 employees

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Developer salaries are very expensive, and this tool saves developer time, so I'd estimate at least $1000/month ROI per developer using this tool.
The CI interface can do wonders to improve release time and software quality. If you leverage this, there's a strong ROI here.
Part of our business relied on secure private source code hosting; GitLab is totally the right choice for that.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Atom Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

GitLab Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Free	$0¹
Premium	$19¹
Ultimate	$99¹

per user per month

SaaS Edition

Free	$0¹
SaaS Premium	$19¹
SaaS Ultimate	$99¹

per user per month

Additional Pricing Details

We provide free Gold and Ultimate licenses to qualifying open source projects and educational institutions, find out more by visiting https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/

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