Atom Alternatives

Much faster, highly active development phase, more and more add-ons are added to the marketplace, open source, and cross-platform.

Seems faster than Atom, less resource-hungry. Also using it as the default text editor on macOS.

VS Code has arguably better defaults than Atom especially with the pre-configured minimap. Atom's themes use HTML/CSS so visuals are fully configurable but that also makes it a bit slower with drawing operations whereas VS Code draws everything fast, very noticeable with the minimap which reacts practically instantly to changes. VS Code also loads faster and just feels faster in general. Otherwise, both editors offer a massive list of great features and droves of extensions.

Makes everything easier, faster.

Much much faster, much better IntelliSense/context-aware suggestions. Even supports debugging.

Faster, still customizable, more basic things such as terminal built in

It has a great user interface and it is also built with Electron.

All needed features included, light weight and to the point. Good support for RtL scripts and customization. The only possible problem found is that the official builds are compiled for MS-Windows only, but it is open source, so that's no big deal breaker!

Notepad++ has built-in support for many languages and a great plugin system for more.

Windows only, few plugins, more a text editor than a code editor/IDE.

Usage of Notepad++ should be really straightforward for those with prior IDE knowledge & experience.

Light on resources, easy to use. Good for beginners.

notepad++ has very les plugins and isn't very customizable

Notepad++ is not cross platform and not as performant as Atom

SublimeText is by far my most favorite editor in my 32 years of computing as it has multitude of features found no where else and is extendable with packages. Vertical Selection and Multi-caret editing is two of my most used features.

Sublime text is powerful such as adding "anaconda" package makes it a full functional IDE, also it supports lots of important languages like java, javascript, C#, ruby, perl to name a few. The only draw back about it is it's not free but work to buy.

You wouldn't believe me if I told you the amount of plug-ins available for easy addition.

It is very similar and easy to understand and use, this program is probably one of the best alternatives to Atom if you are using it for simple text editing and you are not very interested in modifying the program itself, even though both programs are really great, I prefer to use Atom when I'm on linux and Sublime Text when I'm on Windows.

Because Sublime it's almost the same but paid. It only have minor differences on the packages you can install (some are better in Sublime, some are better in Atom).

Vim offers unlimited customization and consumes very less memory, it supports execution of commands from vim itself and with the right plugins works almost like an ide

Vim is one of the most lightweight text editors on the planet. If you want to edit plain text or code, and you want to do it efficiently, Vim's keyboard-centric design is great.

Vim is a command-line tool, which differs a lot from a GUI app like Atom, Notepad++ or Sublime Text.

While Vim is powerful, it’s not an easy replacement for a GUI-based text editor.

Geany is easy, extremely fast, and reliable. Has a good console. Has good interaction with the shell. Is very customizable. Can be extended with lua. Has good selection of plugins. Snippets. Block editing. Code folding. Syntax highlighting. Tab completion. Everything works. File browser. Object browser. Configurable compilation and execution. Project managment. etc. Everuthing without bloating.

Easiest CLI-based text editor for newbies

nano is a great editor when you are in CLI, however, of course, it does not use GUI or has GUI.

Its more than just a text editor, its an list interpreter and an shell. Good for computer setups without mouse