Why do I use Atom?
February 04, 2019
Why do I use Atom?
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Atom
I use it for myself since the department policy allows us to choose our preferred editor. I use it to write code usually for websites, i.e. PHP, CSS, JS, and HTML 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.
- It helps on productivity, since it allows developers to better understand what are they doing.
Atom is simpler to install and maintain, does not generate unwanted files, does not add folders or other hidden objects to your project.