Atom vs. Sublime Text

Atom is great for developers looking for a completely hackable experience. There is a ton of plugins available to you, and you can really build an editor that matches your own personal taste. The performance is also pretty neat and does not impact your CPU as much as the competition.

Incentivized

My CMS has a small window in which I can edit custom HTML/CSS. It can be expanded some, but not as much as I would like. It also displays all code as dark text on a white background. On a page where I am doing extensive custom coding, it is helpful to see it in a larger window and in a color-coded display so that I don't have to strain my eyes as hard. Especially when I'm trying to scan for specific elements and target issues and so that I don't have to scroll endlessly in a tiny window.

Incentivized

• 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

• Sublime Text does an incredible job with appropriate color coding and syntax definitions; makes code extremely readable
• Tab selection is very well done; easy to see which files have been changed and to compare across multiple files
• Auto-complete is surprisingly effective and accurate
• Support for Apple M1 processors already

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• In a world of free and open text editors, Sublime Text does ask for donations. You can use the product freely with only a very infrequent popup asking for donations. You can use it however long you like without paying, but it is well worth it to donate to.
• People not used to the functionality may need a bit of time to get up to speed using the documentation.
• An integrated terminal would be nice, but that is just a quibble. It's hard to find many cons with Sublime Text.

Incentivized

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

I love this application. It has helped to improve my work. Also, I became so used to the shortcuts that It's hard for me to change to another editor.

Incentivized

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

This is a programmers tool. As such a lot of the features and benefits are lost on a non-technical user. To get the most out of the tool you need to have a basic crash course in how it works and what it can do. The documentation and community are good, but it takes a bit of time to get up to speed.

Incentivized

It has many handy hacks and shortcuts which enhances its performace.

Incentivized

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

Never had to use their customer support before. There is ample documentation online so it's straightforward to find a solution to any problem you might encounter. For example, I needed to convert a string of HTML code to a properly formatted HTML file to "modify." Easy to do when there are so many users of the product who have needed to do that same thing before.

Incentivized

Just download and install

Incentivized

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... but I prefer it to vs code because of the themes (although i found recently some new additions that are similar to my favourite) and just the feeling when navigating/typing is not the same, it's very hard to describe... but it just doesn't feel "right"

Incentivized

Sublime is more customizable and one can easily modify a lot of its features. On the contrary Visual Studio only has limited customizability features. Sublime text is also very light and not bloated as opposed to Visual Studio IDE. We also chose sublime because it has much better support for the majority of languages(especially Python) and I primarily work with python.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Sublime is a cost-effective option for the company, as it isn't prohibitively expensive, and our team prefers it to other options.
• Speed, customization, and scalability are just some of the advantages of using Sublime Text in our IT department.
• Our work has been slowed down by faster coding and more accessible debugging apps, both good and bad.