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A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
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Autocompletion Clean design Code completion Collaborative writing Community based Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Folder Hierarchy Fuzzy Finder GIT support GitHub integration Gitlab integration Hackable Integrated Development Environment Interior Design Live collaboration Minimap Modular System Multiple languages Multiple cursors Support for Multiple programming languages 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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Atom Reviews
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.
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.
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
Itβs a rich editor but awfully slow to launch and heavy as hell (2 Go files just for editing CSS or PHP is insane).
free and lightweight, but often slow to start up and not a big help to format code according to standards
This has been the best multi tool I have used in a long time.
IMO the editor with the best UI. Unfortunately it could be a bit faster. But still my go to editor.
Great editor with lots of added functionalities. It's open source so always has scope of improvement.