Atom vs NetBeans

• 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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• We can indent code very easily, we can define rules for the indentation of code in every computer language and it will follow accordingly.
• The checkpoints in the code really work well in case if we want to debug issues in our code.
• History of our saved code is really one of the best feature of NetBeans. Sometimes due to power failure or any other glitches we have lost our saved code but history of code really helped our team.
• Comparison of code across different files is also a good feature to know the exact difference between code of different developers.

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• 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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• Sometimes the code hints are a little intrusive and need to be 'turned off', I like my code to pass inspection but situations like 'too many nested blocks' prevent previously functioning code to pass new versions of the program hints.
• If you have too many projects open, Netbeans takes quite a while to load. I need to go grab a cup of tea and come back. As a result, I jealously guard how many projects are open at a time.
• Code completion and PHP platform function helps can occasionally be more of a curse than a blessing. Constant 'pop ups' of hints, suggestions make coding a bit aggravating, I do not actually turn it off, but am tempted.

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• 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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• By working on Netbeans I just learned one more tool and can teach others about it. One should learn every tool so that it might help someday if another editor is not available and you have to use different software for your work.
• Compiling code became easy as it is not a feature of normal text editors. Only IDE can do this.

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