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Joyful coding
January 02, 2024

Joyful coding

Flavio Mauri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Atom

I use Atom for coding emails. I was having a weird problem with Dreamweaver (the licensed software my team uses) for which the program would lag, despite having the same machine as other members... so I picked Atom, which I knew was freely available and I had used in a previous job.
Atom works flawlessly, it's super lightweight, and has wonderful themes that are really pleasing to the eye compared to Dreamweaver or Visual Studio Code
  • Lightweight
  • Beautiful themes
  • Plugins
  • Customisable
  • Easily integrates with version control
  • 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)
  • The ROI is incredible, because the software is free and solid, so it's a no brainer to use
  • Speed: being light and with good shortcuts and find/replace functions, you can work fast
  • Side-by-side coding: there is a feature to scroll two documents at the same time, which would be great for code comparison, but it doesn't work well for me (one panel lags behind/falls out of sync very quickly)
Atom is incredibly lighter than Dreamweaver, of course it doesn't have the tools DW provides in terms of preview and clicking an element to be taken to the code... but for small web pages this is not necessary.
Atom is more similar to Notepad++ and the very popular vs code... but I prefer it to vs code because of the themes (although i found recently some new additions that are similar to my favourite) and just the feeling when navigating/typing is not the same, it's very hard to describe... but it just doesn't feel "right"

Do you think Atom delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Atom's feature set?

Yes

Did Atom live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Atom go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Atom again?

Yes

Atom is great for simple HTML coding. It's fast, has intuitive shortcuts and several options. I particularly love the "convert spaces to tabs" function that I haven't seen in other editors.

I'm not sure how it would fair in more serious web development today, if there are plugins for live updates of the page you are working on...

But the problem is that it has been discontinued so you know there are no new features or fixes coming through.