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What is Atom?

Atom is a free and open source text editor offering a range of packages and themes.

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What is Atom?

Atom is a free and open source text editor offering a range of packages and themes.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Atom is a free and open source text editor offering a range of packages and themes.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Atom are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Joyful coding

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 02, 2024
FM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Atom
5 years of experience
  • Lightweight
  • Beautiful themes
  • Plugins
  • Customisable
  • Easily integrates with version control
Cons
  • remember window configuration (reopens always the same panels despite closing them)
  • remember code preferences (I use word wrap and i have to switch it on every document)

Atom - A simplest, finest , open-source text editor

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 28, 2021
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Atom
1 year of experience
  • 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
Cons
  • 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

Atom editor - multi-cursor mode for the win!

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 23, 2020
DM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Atom
3 years of experience
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.

Highly Customizable IDE With Excellent Git Integration

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 01, 2020
JD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Atom
3 years of experience
  • Git integration
  • Plugin ecosystem
  • C++ development
Cons
  • 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.
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