Atom vs. Microsoft Visual Studio Code vs. Notepad++

Atom

Atom

92 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

1006 Reviews and Ratings

Notepad++

Notepad++

359 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Atom	Score 7.9 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	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, an open source text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.	$0
Notepad++	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Notepad++ is a popular free and open source text editor available under the GPL license, featuring syntax highlighting and folding, auto-complete, multi-document management, and ac customizable GUI.	N/A

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	Atom	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Notepad++
Considered Multiple Products	Atom Verified User Engineer Chose Atom Both Sublime Text and notepad++ have a long history for being good code editors. However, it's important to realize the changes and growth in the field of text editors, and Atom is simply a lot better now in terms of community and support. Incentivized Helpful? Flavio Mauri CRM Designer 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 Engineer 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 Team Lead 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 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 Engineer 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 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 Chose Atom NetBeans was a big application in terms of size, so it usually takes more time when starting development. Incentivized Helpful? Samuel Hadid IT Security Engineer Chose Atom Atom is way more user-friendly than other text editors. However, I am not sure if this affects other aspects as compatibility with some languages or other features as having to save a file with a particular extension for autofill to be enabled for the current work. Still, … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist Chose Atom I like Atom because it is simple and not too complicated. Configurable, full-featured, yet remains nimble. You can not beat the cost of Open Source, so this leaves software like BBEdit out in the cold. Atom is not as hardcore as Vim or Emacs. Less complicated than full IDEs … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer 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? CK Chaithra Kamath Local Software Developer 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 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 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 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 Employee 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 Visual Studio Code Verified User Director 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? Sean Patterson Software Development Director 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? Tim Hardy Software Architect 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? Satbir Singh MIS Analyst 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. Helpful? Greg Garnhart Research & Development: Product Intern 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? FA Florian Alex Kubernetes network expert Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Notepad++ is a great tool, but has most of the power tips and tools of notepad++ are available into Microsoft Visual Studio Code I use less and less notepad++. It's more easier to "stay" into Microsoft Visual Studio Code, open a new window do my stuff and go for the next task. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I also used sublime and notepad++. compared to them, Microsoft Visual Studio Code provide better balance between performance, features, and flexibility. Its lightweight like Sublime Text but offer more features and many extension support. Microsoft Visual Studio Code is free, … Incentivized Helpful? JC Juan Camilo Data Analyst Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It is easy to use, has strong community support and add-ons, and lets you organize files in different languages in an easy-to-use, collaborative environment. The main reason I use it is its easy integration with Git and Jupyter notebooks. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code As mentioned before, IDE's can be excellent with one thing, and the company we do a lot of things, so it's kind of annoying to have multiple programs, heavy ones to open your work, so just use one, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, personalize thanks to extensions, and you are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code happened to be the easiest, fastest and more extendible between the tested IDEs, making it our to-go choice Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code provides more flexibility and supports easy integration to different platforms (including cloud). It is more modular and lighter application as compared to other integrated development environments. Microsoft Visual Studio Code is easy to learn and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio code UI is very handy. Extension feasibility is good Helpful? Verified User Director 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 Project Manager Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1. More features compared to Notepad++ 2. fast performance compare to Android Studio 3.More and usefull extensions then other two 4. Easy to use and everyone can start using it instantly 5. Version Control system is top notch 6.If you start using it , you will forget other ides … Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It has some much more functionality than Notepad++, all the addons make editing scripts a breeze Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer 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 Professional Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code In all honesty, I've not even looked back at any of these alternatives since switching to Microsoft Visual Studio Code a few years ago, there simply isn't the need. For all I know they're all absolutely fantastic, but at the time of switching (and consistently since) Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer 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? SS Shion Song Art Director & Web Developer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code [Microsoft Visual Studio Code] builds on the simplicity and speed of Notepad++ yet remains very customizable and offers features that are comparable and often go beyond other paid offerings such as Dreamweaver CC. It also requires no upfront/subscription so there's no risk in … Incentivized Helpful? John Crumpton Technical Director (CTO) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code We moved from Sublime Text. Microsoft Visual Studio Code has similar features, such as a mini view of the document along the right side. Microsoft Visual Studio Code is also freeware. Sublime Text is $80 per seat, so when you add team members the costs increase. Incentivized Helpful? SM Saad Moumen Software Engineer 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? Sudha Govindaraju C# Programmer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Overall, compared to all other open source text editors like Sublime Text, Vim, etc, I've noticed that the Visual Studio Code has been updated regularly which makes it work more efficiently and resolves any bugs on a continuous basis. I feel like VS Code has the speed like Subli… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Strategist 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 Consultant 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 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?	Notepad++ Joel Tanzi Software Engineer Chose Notepad++ Notepad++ has been my go-to for quick text or code editing jobs, or even sometimes for storing brief notes for later reference. Its biggest selling points are its host of great features for automating tasks like indentation, sorting and conversion to other formats, and its … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Roodman Product Marketing Manager Chose Notepad++ Atom and Notepad++ are both free text editor tools. Notepad++ is extremely lightweight whereas Atom can use a lot of memory and be slow with large files. Both apps have a solid UI and both support plugins (they're called packages in Atom). Atom does integrate with Github … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Notepad++ Atom is a nice little notepad and editor, but it's a bit overkill for a simple note-taking app and doesn't quite compare to Visual Studio Code for more robust tasks like software development. It does have more polish than Notepad++, but the experience is somehow more clumsy. Sub… Incentivized Helpful? Przemek Pater Senior IT Specialist Chose Notepad++ In comparison to vs code, Notepad is less complexed solution with maybe less testing or implementation options but also with better script edition control thanks to the code formatting options. It depends on the task we have but for less complexed scripting that doesn't require … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Notepad++ vscode is also a text editor and in many ways is more powerful than Notepad++. Notepad++ is simpler, faster and less busy. vscode is nicer for more complicated things, such as working with multiple files that are related (say a complex set of python scripts) or in a project … Incentivized Helpful? Al Mubassir Muin Software Engineer Chose Notepad++ Since my engineering days, I have used this software. Notepad++ has to be one of the most powerful text editors available. It is lightweight and easy to use. It can identify the programming language based upon the extension of the file. It can also open various attachments, … Helpful? DC Darren Clarke IT Support Technician Chose Notepad++ Both visual studio code and Notepad++ are powerful code editors/text editors. So it is hard to pick a favorite as they both have upsides and downsides. In this case Notepad++ I love the plugins that come with it and the ability to get more from other open sources. In general … Incentivized Helpful? CT Canh Tran Technology Architect Chose Notepad++ UltraEdit was offered as a licensed product by my organization, however, because there was a cost to it, I had to obtain manager's approval for the yearly license required to keep it working. This was a hassle for something as simple as an editor. It was a convenient need to … Incentivized Helpful? JS John Stuchly Data Developer Chose Notepad++ I prefer Notepad++ to both UltraEdit and VSCode. The fact that it is freely available gives it a leg up on UltraEdit, and the feature set is at least comparable and in some ways better. VSCode is more useful if you are using your text editor to code and want to tie into … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Notepad++ I mainly use Notepad++ on windows. EditPlus was very good at regular expressions. I felt it was better than Notepad++. On Mac, sublime is a good tool for the same purpose. Incentivized Helpful? JM Joseph Mark Technology Specialist Chose Notepad++ Visual studio code has more testing capabilities but Notepad++ is easier to use for day to day text and scripting operations. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Proctor Senior Sharepoint Developer Chose Notepad++ I have never looked for other applications to replace or compare to Notepad++. That is how delighted I am to use it no matter where I am at in the working world. It is always one of the first programs that I install on my computer when I start at a new company. Incentivized Helpful? Manik sharma Senior Software Developer Chose Notepad++ Its performance is very good. Its cost is comparatively less. It supports multiple languages. It takes less time to load and it's very fast. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Notepad++ Notepad++ is free, entirely, so you're not going to have to pay for more features (like with Sublime). It's also available offline, so if you're having internet issues you won't lose your data (like with Evernote). Incentivized Helpful? Rao Tahir Senior Software Engineer and team lead Chose Notepad++ When I'm looking for a simple application to edit files quickly and easily, I find Notepad++ optimal. I Recommended Notepad++ if you're looking for an editing tool which works quickly and easily for both personal or professional use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Notepad++ Does the same but in my opinion better. It might [be my] preference but the other options are either too technical or not technical enough. Notepad++ seems to tow this perfect balance, at least in my eyes, of being friendly enough for beginners and deep enough for experts. With … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Boyd Freelance Web and Software Developer Chose Notepad++ We actually don't use Notepad++ over any other software, but in tandem with it. It complements other more advanced, modern text editors and definitely provides a lightweight way to edit code files, especially ones that are interpreted like Python, without having to open a full … Incentivized Helpful? Filip Witkowski Web Developer Chose Notepad++ In comparison to applications like Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code, Notepad++ is very limited. But this one has a different use. It's not used to work on projects—more like just editing and converting single files. It's the advanced version of the default Windows notepad. … Incentivized Helpful? James Pautz II Senior Technical Consultant Chose Notepad++ Notepad++ is the no-frills, simpler options that is an old reliable text editor. The alternatives have slicker interfaces and more features, but can be overkill for certain uses. The quality of plugins that Notepad++ has is a bit higher and there is less noise. Notepad++ is … Incentivized Helpful?

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Medium-sized Companies	Vim Score 9.5 out of 10	Vim Score 9.5 out of 10	Vim Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Atom	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Notepad++
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (31 ratings)	8.7 (91 ratings)	8.8 (62 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.4 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (8 ratings)	9.2 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (13 ratings)	9.7 (23 ratings)	8.1 (15 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Atom	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Notepad++
Likelihood to Recommend	Open Source Atom is great for simple HTML coding. It's fast, has intuitive shortcuts and several options. I particularly love the "convert spaces to tabs" function that I haven't seen in other editors. I'm not sure how it would fair in more serious web development today, if there are plugins for live updates of the page you are working on... But the problem is that it has been discontinued so you know there are no new features or fixes coming through. Incentivized Flavio Mauri CRM Designer Read full review	Microsoft As a general workhorse IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio Codee is unmatched. Building on the early success of applications such as Atom, it has long been the standard for electron based IDEs. It can be outshone using IDEs that are dedicated to particular platforms, such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code for .net and the Jetbrains IDEs for Java, Python and others. For remote collaborative development, something like Zed is ahead of VSCode live share, which can be quite flakey. Incentivized JA Josh Armitage Modern Engineering Practice Lead Read full review	Open Source well suited for 1) Coding and Development - Writing and editing code, Quick prototyping and testing of code snippets, Debugging and inspecting code using syntax highlighting and line numbering, 2) web development - Creating and editing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web-related files .Managing and organizing web projects with multiple files and directories. Not suited for - 1) processing huge files 2) graphic designing 3) complex gui designs 3) Data Analysis and Manipulation - Editing and cleaning up text-based data files before importing them into analytical tools. Applying regular expressions to extract, transform, and manipulate data. 4) System Administration and IT - change system configuration file Incentivized Sudipto Sinha, PSM I SAP Solution Architect ( BRIM/CRM/OTC) Read full review
Pros	Open Source 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! Incentivized Mark Nowowiejski Sr. Instructional Designer Read full review	Microsoft Integrate with the git repository very well. Integrated copilot chat is very helpful to write code snippets and helps beginners to start with coding and development. Great library of available extensions is one of the best features in Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Dedicated Testing option to configure pytest and others are quite handy to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Open Source Notepad++ allows us to keep open files in tabs. Like in a web browser, these tabs let us access these files quickly and easily. Furthermore, even if we forget to save the files when closing the program or shutting down the PC, Notepad++ retains them in the open tabs when we reopen it. Notepad++ supports many different file types. We usually save our files created in Notepad as normal text files, but sometimes as JSON, PHP, and HTML files. Notepad++ is lightweight and requires little resources. Using it is snappy and responsive. The developer of Notepad++ frequently updates the software with bug fixes, performance improvements and new features. Incentivized Dr Andy Teh Founder, Owner, and Principal Read full review
Cons	Open Source 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 Incentivized Deepshi Sharma Software Engineer Read full review	Microsoft The customization of key combinations should be more accessible and easier to change The auxiliary panels could be minimized or as floating tabs which are displayed when you click on them A monitoring panel of resources used by Microsoft Visual Studio Code or plugins and extensions would help a lot to be able to detect any malfunction of these Incentivized Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Read full review	Open Source UI looks a bit dated. Sometimes the number of options are overwhelming and require a quick search to figure out where to locate a particular function. Some way to do a diff between files would be great. Still need to resort to another paid app for that - unless it is a buried function I don't know about or there's a plugin for it. Incentivized CT Canh Tran Technology Architect Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Open Source 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 Incentivized Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist Read full review	Microsoft Solid tool that provides everything you need to develop most types of applications. The only reason not a 10 is that if you are doing large distributed teams on Enterprise level, Professional does provide more tools to support that and would be worth the cost. Incentivized Steven Gockley, MBA, MCSA DBA / Sr. Data Analyst Read full review	Open Source I use it every day for 13 years already and it never disappointed me Incentivized Przemek Pater Senior IT Specialist Read full review
Usability	Open Source 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio Code earns a 10 for its exceptional balance of power and simplicity. Its intuitive interface, robust extension ecosystem, and integrated terminal streamline development. With seamless Git integration and highly customizable settings, it adapts perfectly to any workflow, making complex coding tasks feel effortless for beginners and experts alike. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Open Source There are lot of features to talk about. Especially the usability is good. Everyone can easily to use and user-friendly. Can also update easily. Can also write and execute the programming languages like C, C++ etc. Encoding is also the major feature that helps me a lot and converter as well. Praveen Kumar QA Tester Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Open Source No answers on this topic	Microsoft Overall, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty reliable. Every so often, though, the app will experience an unexplained crash. Since it is a stand-alone app, connectivity or service issues don't occur in my experience. Restarting the app seems to always get around the problem, but I do make sure to save and backup current work. Incentivized Bruce Carter Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	Open Source No answers on this topic
Performance	Open Source No answers on this topic	Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty snappy in performance terms. It launches quickly, and tasks are performed quickly. I don't have a lot of integrations other than CoPilot, but I suspect that if the integration partner is provisioned appropriately that any performance impact would be pretty minimal. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles (unless you start adding plugins left and right). Incentivized Bruce Carter Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	Open Source No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Open Source Atom has an active forum and a Slack group where you can ask technical questions. Occasionally, the authors will pop in to answer a few questions here and there, but most of the time, its other helpful users who will assist you. Though they aren't the most knowledgeable, they are at least timely. As for plugin support, that differs with each plugin, but as I mentioned before, many plugins are no longer maintained. Incentivized Patrick Fong Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Microsoft Active development means filing a bug on the GitHub repo typically gets you a response within 4 days. There are plugins for almost everything you need, whether it be linting, Vim emulation, even language servers (which I use to code in Scala). There is well-maintained official documentation. The only thing missing is forums. The closest thing is GitHub issues, which typically has the answers but is hard to sift through -- there are currently 78k issues. Incentivized Patrick Fong Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Open Source I haven't needed to utilize any support related to Notepad++. I guess this is a good thing because I found it to be quite intuitive. There are almost infinite features you can tweak and plugins you can download but I haven't had to do that because Notepad++ is really good right out of the box. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Open Source Just download and install Incentivized Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic	Open Source No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Open Source 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 some confusion since adding too many extensions or customizing can make the tool slower than it is supposed to be. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Visual Studio Code stacks up nicely against Visual Studio because of the price and because it can be installed without admin rights. We don't exclusively use Visual Studio Code, but rather use Visual Studio and Visual Studio code depending on the project and which version of source control the given project is wired up to. Incentivized Mark Orlando Senior Developer Analyst Read full review	Open Source Notepad for Windows, Microsoft Word...LibreOffice Writer....I have used all of these for code writing and editing. Once again I like the universal feel of Notepad++. Basic Notepad, is just that, basic...and kind of clunky for what it is. This is a cool that I have installed on all my computers and also keep it on a thumb drive if I need it elsewhere. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	Open Source No answers on this topic	Microsoft It is easily deployed with our Jamf Pro instance. There is actually very little setup involved in getting the app deployed, and it is fairly well self-contained and does not deploy a large amount of associated files. However, it is not particularly conducive to large project, multi-developer/department projects that involve some form of central integration. Incentivized Bruce Carter Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	Open Source No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Open Source The tool we use when we need quick fixes. Allows fast, reliable scripting to fix urgent problems in our applications. When applications grow from 5-10 files to 100's, they need to be migrated to a heavier-duty IDE. This can be cumbersome and quite annoying, but is necessary to maintain code integrity on such a large scale (since it cannot be done with the limited default toolset of Atom). Incentivized Dylan Cauwels DevOps Engineer Read full review	Microsoft Saves money by replacing suites of tools such as Visual Studio, IntelliJ, etc. Speeds development time and developer environment setup time Strengthens code quality with integrated autoformatting and linting Strengths Git practices by keeping version control tightly connected with the code Incentivized Jude Allred Co-Founder & CTA Read full review	Open Source Productivity has increased for developers. It's free so instead of buying a piece of software, you can use this to replace many of them that may only specialize in one thing. It gives our developers confidence knowing they have such a reliable, free tool at their disposal. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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