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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.
License
FreeSupported Platforms
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Features
Autocompletion Clean design Code completion Collaborative writing Community based Customizable Electron based Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Folder Hierarchy Fuzzy Finder GIT support GitHub integration Gitlab integration Hackable Interior Design Live collaboration Minimap Modular System Multiple languages Multiple cursors Night mode/Dark Theme Distraction-free UI Package Control Package Manager Plugin API Plugin manager Real time collaboration Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Teletype Support for Themes Unit Testing Add a feature
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See why people like Atom πNeeds a lot of space and system resources to do something way slower than others that I've tested.
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Consumes a lot of resources
Needs a lot of space and system resources to do something way slower than others that I've tested.
Electron based.
Sluggish with large files
With too many tabs & large files, it becomes quite sluggish even on new machines. Maybe native UI would help.
extremely heavy on large files
it's really strange that github people couldn't come up with a fast and strong app.
Itβs a rich editor but awfully slow to launch and heavy as hell (2 Go files just for editing CSS or PHP is insane).
Too slow, moved to Visual Studio Code
Replaced Sublime Text with Atom when Atom came out, however Atom is just so incredibly slow. I ended up replacing it with Visual Studio Code which is much much faster.
Resource exhaustive
It spawns child process just like GChrome does and thus with only a single tab opened it occupies 220MB in private memory! And unlike SublimeText, which starts instantly, this takes a couple of seconds to make the first visual contact.
P.S. I'm using Windows 8.1
Opens in two seconds on Ubuntu!
I didn' t use atom until now because of that, but now atom is a lot better.
It is a bit slow when launching, but is a lot more powerful and beautiful that Sublime Text.
Atom with plugins are just Powerful !
In a second on my system - Xubuntu
Maybe is because Sublime is written in C++ and Python... idk!!!???
V8 (javascript) engine is still not as fast as C++ / Python, but the team are optimising really fast...
Check my video https://youtu.be/LsFG-ns0q20
If atom is slow, just desactive the plugins. Some plugins make it very slow.
I still use it and don't want another one.
If you want to write code, it may be useful, especially if you like to share and discuss things. For a common user it is just a very heavy version of Notepad, with too many options to feel safe. Code yes, salad recipe - no.
I wanted to use it for PHP development.
The deal-breaker for me was the inability to use different syntax-highlighting for embedded code. The whole file takes on one scheme which makes it difficult to distinguish between embedded PHP / JavaScript / HTML etc. blocks of code.
Same goes for VSCode, so it might be a limitation from using the Electron platform.
It can be the best editor for you, if you have a PC with a lot of memory.
If you use a notebook, please forget it, becouse it drains the battery extremely
It's open sourced, it links perfectly with Git (obviously), and has endless packages for whatever you want
super slow
If you need something cross-platform that integrates with Github, probably a good choice. But it's really just not outstanding in any way. Editing behaviors are a little non-standard, doesn't do simple things like retain history of opened documents, usefulness is reduced sharply if you're not working with defined projects all the time. Also, seems to integrate pretty poorly w/Windows -- e.g., pinning to taskbar only works for current session, and it can't be registered as a default application for given file extensions (in Win7, at least).
I'm putting it at 3 stars bec I think it's probably much better if your workflow is Github-centric (or even just Git-centric). Also, performance was good even with large files, which is a huge failing of current versions of Dreamweaver.
Simplicity, lot of plugins... CLI ... cross platform
Open source, as of 06 May 2014
http://blog.atom.io/2014/05/06/atom-is-now-open-source.html