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Atom-IDE vs Vim-Plug: What are the differences?
Developers describe Atom-IDE as "A set of optional packages to bring IDE-like functionality to Atom, created by Facebook & GitHub". A collection of Atom UIs to support language services as part of Atom IDE, designed for use with packages built on top of atom-languageclient. On the other hand, Vim-Plug is detailed as "A minimalist Vim plugin manager". A minimalist Vim plugin manager.
Atom-IDE and Vim-Plug belong to "Tools for Text Editors" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Atom-IDE are:
- Busy Signal
- Code Actions
- Code Format
On the other hand, Vim-Plug provides the following key features:
- Easier to setup: Single file. No boilerplate code required.
- Easier to use: Concise, intuitive syntax
- Super-fast parallel installation/update (requires +ruby)
Atom-IDE and Vim-Plug are both open source tools. Vim-Plug with 15.2K GitHub stars and 683 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Atom-IDE with 946 GitHub stars and 101 GitHub forks.
Pros of Atom-IDE
Pros of Vim-Plug
- Parallel plugins downloading5
- Simple5
- Fast4
- Intuitive3