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Atom

Stacks16.7K

Followers14.4K

+ 1

Votes2.5K

Fossil

Stacks8

Followers25

+ 1

Votes6

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Atom vs Fossil: What are the differences?

Developers describe Atom as "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. On the other hand, Fossil is detailed as "Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management". Fossil is a software configuration management system. Fossil is software that is designed to control and track the development of a software project and to record the history of the project. There are many such systems in use today. Fossil strives to distinguish itself from the others by being extremely simple to setup and operate.

Atom and Fossil are primarily classified as "Text Editor" and "Code Collaboration & Version Control" 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, Fossil provides the following key features:

Bug Tracking And Wiki
Web Interface
Autosync

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.

Decisions about Atom and Fossil

Andrey Ginger

Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · May 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 495.8K views

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Since communication with Github is not necessary, the Atom is less convenient in working with text and code. Sublim's support and understanding of projects is best for us. Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface. We use a good theme for Sublim ayu-dark

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Pros of Atom

Pros of Fossil

529
Free
449
Open source
343
Modular design
321
Hackable
316
Beautiful UI
147
Backed by github
119
Built with node.js
113
Web native
107
Community
35
Packages
18
Cross platform
5
Nice UI
5
Multicursor support
5
TypeScript editor
3
Open source, lots of packages, and so configurable
3
cli start
3
Simple but powerful
3
Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR
3
Snippets
2
Code readability
2
It's powerful
2
Awesome
2
Smart TypeScript code completion
2
Well documented
1
works with GitLab
1
"Free", "Hackable", "Open Source", The Awesomness
1
full support
1
vim support
1
Split-Tab Layout
1
Apm publish minor
1
Consistent UI on all platforms
1
User friendly
1
Hackable and Open Source
0
Publish

2
Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki and Tech Notes
1
Dead simple & single binary with tons of features
1
Strong and flexible
1
Cheap&intelligent
1
AutoSync - Reduces needless Merging and Forking

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Cons of Atom

Cons of Fossil

19
Slow with large files
7
Slow startup
2
Most of the time packages are hard to find.
1
No longer maintained
1
Cannot Run code with F5
1
Can be easily Modified

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What is Atom?

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.

What is Fossil?

Fossil is a software configuration management system. Fossil is software that is designed to control and track the development of a software project and to record the history of the project. There are many such systems in use today. Fossil strives to distinguish itself from the others by being extremely simple to setup and operate.

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What are some alternatives to Atom and Fossil?

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Brackets

With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.

cell

cell is a self-constructing web app framework powered by a self-driving DOM. Learning cell is mostly about understanding how cell works, and not about how to use and memorize some API methods, because there is no API.

Element

Element is a Vue 2.0 based component library for developers, designers and product managers, with a set of design resources.

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