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Atom - A simplest, finest , open-source text editor
September 28, 2021

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

Deepshi Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Atom

Atom is used by only the development team in my organization. Atom has a simple UI that makes users use it without any issues. It has support for GitHub and has a lot of plugins. Along with this, a user can write its own plugin. Support code formating for different languages and its minimap feature also helps sometimes. It is being used to develop clean, well-structured code for our product. It is simply perfect because of everything it provides. The next best thing about Atom is that you have git control over it which helps to make things super easy in terms of open sourcing.
  • 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
  • Support for GitHub, Plugins and Plugin development
  • Support for many languages
  • Support for many operating systems
  • UI is very good, has three column layout, syntax highlighting feature and much more
  • Fast coding with good error detection
  • It is moddable - hack your keymap / hotkeys / write scripts for your own actions and assign them the shortcuts
  • 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.
In beginning stage of project, Atom wins the race against them all. I selected Atom because of its support for many plugins, simplicity, formatting tools, open source control . But for large scale projects, atom is not suitable editor because of its unexpected behaviour in case of large amount of code.

Do you think Atom delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Atom's feature set?

No

Did Atom live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Atom go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Atom again?

No

Atom is well suited for users who just beginning with their development careers. For developing production level or at the local level, for any use-case Atom is well suited as it provides support for many plugins and version control too. It is not suitable for heavy projects because it takes a lot of time in getting opened and also stops unexpectedly in between. It can be used by early-stage startups who are just beginning their project but when there is an ample amount of code, then they must switch to some other software.