Atom

Remote collaboration

Customization

Source code integration

Ease of use

Documentation

Lightweight, intuitive interface that is almost self-explanatory

Highly customizable (themes, plugins, language support)

Great community support with open-source extensions

Some stability issues such as intermittent crashes

Developers with advanced needs will not find equivalents to VS Studio

Managing plugins at the corporate level can be cumbersome

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

High start-up time

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

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

Integrated CLI

Lightweight

Easy to user

Support extensions

Affects performance

Plugins issues

Support GIT

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.

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.

Git integration

Plugin ecosystem

C++ development

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.

Easy.

Clear.

Multi-language.

Cloud base.

ec2.

Execution.

Integration.

Easy to check.

Nice structure.

Cannot run code directly.

Not working with notebook.

Wish it can be added onto ec2.

Cross platform support for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Helpful community of people on the forums to ask for help.

Development on the Atom source code has greatly stalled since Microsoft purchased GitHub.

Many plugin developers moved their plugins onto VSCode and stopped maintaining their Atom version.

Built-in package manager.

Smart auto completion feature was great.

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.

Compatibility

Ease of use

C compatibility sometimes is not that great

File extensions dictate editing functionality (i.e., no html auto-fill if file not saved as .html)

Git integration

FTP integration

Git integration is very complicated to set up.

In general Atom offers complex features that require time to get familiarized with.

Edit code in multiple windows.

Atom is available on many computing platforms.

Atom seems to be a bit aggressive with the "help" and "tip" system. You have to turn that stuff off or it is annoying.

On occasion, sometimes a package does not work, they need to pull those.

Color Coding for ease of organization.

Excellent customization - visually and functionally.

Integrated SASS compilers (or similar) would be a great asset.

The ability to create "draft" or backups of files would be a nice feature.

Integration with GIT.

Code coloring.

Code hints.

A better live HTML code rendering system.

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!

The basic setting it comes with aren't very user-friendly, and if you're new to code editing you might struggle with getting it set-up in an effective way.

I sometimes have issues with Atom launching from Command line on a MAC(Hyper).

Dreamweaver users my dislike the lack of a 'design view' but there workarounds.

Usability: Atom is very user-friendly. Its interface is clean and the entire application is incredibly simple to navigate even for users new to editors

Cross-Platform Experience: No matter your system, Atom works the same which makes providing demos and examples pretty seamless

Community Driven Plugin Development: Because the community is able to contribute plugins, Atom is extremely useful regardless of what you are trying to do. Working on the Go? There's a plugin for that. Working with infrastructure as code using Terraform? Plugin for that. Editing chef code? There's also a plugin for that.

Memory Hog: Using Atom, Slack, and Chrome on a laptop that isn't completely specked out is a recipe for disaster. Try opening Spotify, I dare you.

Opensource : While Sublime is a good editor which is comparable to Atom, it's not opensource. Atom is opensource. Which makes it easier to tailor it to suit your needs.

Autocomplete: Atom automatically variable names, functions and constructs, it also closes the brackets as soon as you open one. Which helps me avoid syntax errors.

Simplicity : It maintains simplicity without sacrificing important features.

GIT Integration : Considering that it's built by GitHub, it's no surprise that Atom has a very good GIT integration.

Startup is a bit slow. Memory management can be improved.

Support for syntax highlighting for some languages are missing.

Some plugins randomly crash and Atom stops responding. Uninstalling the plugin that crashed usually solves this.

Search engine does not work as you would expect it to work.

Extensibility via plugins.

Code highlighting in various languages.

Cross-platform support.

User-support.

Bug and crash handling.

Lagging when connected to a server.

Real-time code previewing.

Word selection highlights.

Shorthand coding.

In terms of processing, if too many packages installed it tends to slow the PC.

Should also branch out to other languages in terms of ease of use and flexibility.

Lightweight solution. Unmatched in the ability to drum up a script, test it, and deploy it until a more permanent solution is available.

Adaptable to almost any situation. Need to do a SQL script? There's a plugin that will allow you to connect to your database or a sample one and run your code. General scripts can be run straight from the program instead of the command line with the "script" plugin. There are even scripts that will "beautify" ugly code for you to fix "that guy's" code.

Should have account-based customization so that plugins sync across machines. Currently, you have to individually install each plugin/environment on every machine that you encounter, which can be incredibly time consuming and frustrating after the first time.

Highly configurable. Atom has packages that can be managed through the application or via command line. This gives it incredible power for advanced users.

Blank Start. Atom opens up by default to a blank note page which can be saved anywhere. It can also be used to open projects, but sometimes notes aren't attached to specific projects. This is useful for quick notes.

Run anywhere. Due to it being an electron application, Atom can run on Windows/Mac and Linux. This is incredibly powerful, and a surprising differentiator for a desktop application.

Lack of sync. Atom doesn't have sync built in. I know this can be configured to work with Dropbox or Git, but web applications that sync have a clear advantage.

Lack of mobile. Not all notes are taken on a computer, and several other note taking apps have an option to take and review notes on a phone.

Lack of built-in IDE features. Atom can be configured to be an IDE, but other applications are IDEs by default. It takes a good amount of configuration to bring atom up to that level.

Customizations

Active community for package support

Rich user interface

Performance: it's resource hungry

Stability across OS

Issue loading and manipulating big files

It have a nice encoding handling approach. Some editors don't work properly with different encoding files in the same project and Atom deals with that in a almost transparent way.

The approach of folders like projects is also more productive than that complex way like another old standard editors.

The resource of collapsing blocks of code is very useful in a developers' daily.

The "search in directory" option could have a hotkey (shortcut).

The editor could keep search results on tabs, allowing to browse between several searches.

The editor could support "CTRL+click" as "go to declaration" feature. It's a kind of standard that I still miss, I often need to go to the declaration of a variable or method and find it by search, specially when you just can have one search at once, is really a pain.