Atom: an editor for the 21st century
February 10, 2019

Atom: an editor for the 21st century

Dhruba Jyoti Nag | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Atom

Atom is mostly used by developers across my current organizations. It is a highly customizable editor with many new developer-friendly features. It can also be custom built to suit individual needs. These customizations have quickly made it a favorite with many developers using Atom. In otherways, Atom brings the best of Sublime Text and Notepad++ together.

Pros

  • Customizations
  • Active community for package support
  • Rich user interface

Cons

  • Performance: it's resource hungry
  • Stability across OS
  • Issue loading and manipulating big files
  • Atom is free. So it reduces the need for extensive fees and saves some dollars.
  • It has very good code complete features. So that helps accelerate coding.
  • It can be used to write code in different languages.
Atom has many open source competitors in Sublime Text, Notepad++, etc. When we consider the presence of time tested players like Notepad++, the fact that Atom has been able to carve a niche market of its own says a lot about its capabilities. The user interface is very rich and this has helped in its adoption. It is free and has support which also encourages enterprises to adopt it.
Atom is extensible, it has an active package community and integrated package manager. It is ideal for editing in different programming languages. There is also a fair amount of community support for the different issues one may face. But it is slow compared to other light text editors and cannot handle really large files like a database dump well.

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