Atom
Extensible, cross-platform text editor with a rich ecosystem of plugins and themes.
- Free Personal • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron / Atom Shell
What is Atom?
Atom is an open-source, 
Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.js) and offers the same editing experience across Mac, Windows and Linux desktops. Different from most editors, it uses that same technology for themes so the UI is highly configurable through HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
FEATURES
- Same familiar workflow across platforms.
- Built-in package manager.
- File system browser.
- Advanced find-and-replace that works across multiple files and folders.
- Smart autocompletion.
https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/"Sunsetting AtomWe are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022."
Atom Screenshots
Atom Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Git Support
- Support for Themes
- Syntax Highlighting
- Live Preview
- Distraction-free
- Dark Mode
- Real time collaboration
- Autocompletion
- Customizable
- Package Control
- Community-based
- Add-ons
- GitHub integration
- Clean design
- Teletype
- Unit Testing
- IDE
- Hackable
- Gitlab integration
- Multiple languages
- Folder Hierarchy
- Electron based
- Multiple Cursors
- Plugin manager
- Collaborative writing
- Plugin API
- Modular System
- Tabbed interface
- Minimap
- Separated workspaces
- Code Completion
- Support for NodeJS
- Fuzzy Finder
Atom information
Supported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Code Editor
- Text Editor
- packages
- hackability
- programmers-editor
- Code Snippets
- programming
Recent user activities on Atom
Buster_Blue thinks Pulsar Editor is an alternative to AtomIt's the community-run direct successor (it's a fork) of Atom. If you really liked Atom and wish you could keep using it, this is the obvious choice, because it IS Atom, just with a new name and new maintainers.
lemonadeforlife Downvoted a comment on Visual Studio Code as an alternative to AtomThe best of the best, at least right now.
lemonadeforlife Upvoted a comment on Notepad++ as an alternative to AtomWindows only, few plugins, more a text editor than a code editor/IDE.
I loved it, but Microsoft had to (of course) kill it. VS Code is not nearly as good as Atom. I will continue using it until it dies.
Multiple cursor mode; plugins for almost anything; free!.
Needs a lot of space and system resources to do something way slower than others that I've tested.
Unfortunately, according to AlternativeTo, "Atom will be discontinued at the end of 2022," [0]. Can anyone recommend a similar editor?
[0] https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/
Atom is very similar to Notepad++. However, it brings more unnecessary features (thanks to electron), hogs a shit ton of your RAM for no reason, uses too much of your CPU, and uses a lot of storage. It's basically a text editor that tries so hard to be an IDE, but it fails so hard that it's laughable.
Also: To any app developers out there, please stop using electron. It's like a cancer that keeps on thriving everywhere, thanks to too many simple-minded developers.
One among best Code editors
The worst text editor ever made.