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Atom

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Followers9.8K

+ 1

Votes2.7K

Sublime Text

Stacks22.8K

Followers17.6K

+ 1

Votes4K

Visual Studio Code

Stacks73.6K

Followers59K

+ 1

Votes1.8K

Decisions about Atom, Sublime Text, and Visual Studio Code

Samriddhi Sinha

Data Scientist at Cuddle · Sep 26, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 216.7K views

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Lightweight and versatile. Huge library of extensions that enable you to integrate a host of services to your development environment. VS Code's biggest strength is its library of extensions which enables it to directly compete with every single major IDE for almost all major programming languages.

Kamaleshwar BN

Head of Engineering at Dibiz Pte. Ltd. · Jul 8, 2020 | 12 upvotes · 424.4K views

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Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.

Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.

Andrey Ginger

Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · May 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 193.7K 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 Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface.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

Pros of Atom

Pros of Sublime Text

Pros of Visual Studio Code

525
Free
443
Open source
342
Modular design
318
Hackable
316
Beautiful UI
170
Github integration
147
Backed by github
119
Built with node.js
113
Web native
107
Community
34
Packages
18
Cross platform
5
Nice UI
5
Multicursor support
5
TypeScript editor
3
Snippets
3
cli start
3
Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR
3
Open source, lots of packages, and so configurable
3
Simple but powerful
2
Awesome
2
Code readability
2
It's powerful
2
Smart TypeScript code completion
2
Well documented
1
"Free", "Hackable", "Open Source", The Awesomness
1
full support
1
vim support
1
Split-Tab Layout
1
Made by github. YAY
1
Consistent UI on all platforms
1
User friendly
1
Hackable and Open Source
1
works with GitLab

718
Lightweight
653
Plugins
641
Super fast
468
Great code editor
442
Cross platform
279
Nice UI
257
Unlimited trial
154
Cmd + d is the best command ever
92
Great community
46
Package control, modules
26
Mac OS X support
22
Monokai
22
Easy to get started with
21
Built in Python
21
Everything you need without the bloat
17
Easy
13
Speed
11
Session & edit resuming
9
Package Control
8
Multiple selections
8
Well Designed
6
ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever
6
Fast, simple and lightweight
6
Nice
4
Great
4
It's easy to use, beautiful, simple, and plugins rule
4
ALT + F3 the best command ever
4
So futuristic and convenient
3
Hackable
3
Free
3
Simple and clean design
3
Find anything fast within entire project
2
Pretty
2
Color schemes and cmd+d
2
Easy to use
2
UI + plugins
2
Totally customizable
2
Material theme best theme forever
2
Sublime Merge (Git Integration)

303
Powerful multilanguage IDE
264
Fast
168
Front-end develop out of the box
145
Support TypeScript IntelliSense
121
Very basic but free
99
Git integration
85
Intellisense
69
Faster than Atom
40
Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
36
Great Refactoring Tools
34
Superb markdown support
32
Good Plugins
27
Terminal
21
Large & up-to-date extension community
18
Open Source
17
Extensions
16
Portable
15
Powerful and fast
15
Awesome UI
13
Built on Electron
12
Best code editor
11
Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
10
Easy to get started with
10
Crossplatform
9
Extensible
9
Lots of extensions
9
Best editor
9
All Languages Support
8
Extensions for everything
8
Good for begginers
8
Easy to use and learn
8
Ui design is great
7
Totally customizable
7
Great community
7
"fast, stable & easy to use"
7
Faster edit for slow computer
7
Git out of the box
7
Useful for begginer
7
It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
6
Great language support
6
SSH support
5
He is not Michael
5
Great document formater
5
She is not Rachel
5
Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
5
Powerful Debugger
5
Fast Startup
4
Easy azure
4
Awesome multi cursor support
4
SFTP Workspace
4
Python extension is fast
4
Features rich
4
Extension Echosystem
4
Can compile and run .py files
4
Language server client
4
VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
3
Has more than enough languages for any developer
3
Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
3
Has better support and more extentions for debugging
3
'batteries included'
2
Fast and ruby is built right in
2
Better autocompletes than Atom
2
Virtualenv integration
2
CMake support with autocomplete
2
More tools to integrate with vs
2
Emmet preinstalled
2
VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
1
Very proffesional
1
Light

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Cons of Atom

Cons of Sublime Text

Cons of Visual Studio Code

19
Slow with large files
7
Heavy and slow
6
Slow startup
1
Most of the time packages are hard to find.
1
Can be easily Modified

7
Steep learning curve
4
Everything
3
Number of plugins doing the same thing
3
Doesn't act like a Mac app
3
Flexibility to move file
2
Don't have flutter integration
1
Forces you to buy license

29
Slow startup
17
Resource hog at times
14
Poor refactoring
9
Poor UI Designer
8
Weak Ui design tools
5
Poor autocomplete
4
Poor in PHP
2
Microsoft
2
Poor at Python
1
Poor in Python
1
Super Slow
1
Dilshad
1
Microsoft sends telemetry data
1
Poor intellisense. poor java

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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 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.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to Atom, Sublime Text, and Visual Studio Code?

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.

PyCharm

PyCharm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, CSS, popular template languages and more. Take advantage of language-aware code completion, error detection, and on-the-fly code fixes!

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

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News about Atom

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Jul 23, 2019

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