Atom vs Cloud9 IDE: What are the differences?

Atom: 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; Cloud9 IDE: Your development environment, in the cloud. Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go.

Atom and Cloud9 IDE are primarily classified as "Text Editor" and "Cloud IDE" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Atom are:

• Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies
• Node.js integration
• Modular Design- composed of over 50 open-source packages that integrate around a minimal core

On the other hand, Cloud9 IDE provides the following key features:

• Real-time collaboration and chat
• Connect via SSH and FTP
• Code Completion (suggestions)

"Free", "Open source" and "Modular design" are the key factors why developers consider Atom; whereas "Easy to use", "Free" and "Nice UI" are the primary reasons why Cloud9 IDE is favored.

Atom is an open source tool with 49.3K GitHub stars and 12.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Atom's open source repository on GitHub.

Lyft, Typeform, and PedidosYa are some of the popular companies that use Atom, whereas Cloud9 IDE is used by LinkedIn, Heroku, and Salesforce. Atom has a broader approval, being mentioned in 836 company stacks & 725 developers stacks; compared to Cloud9 IDE, which is listed in 29 company stacks and 40 developer stacks.