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Followers8

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Atom vs VimR: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is VimR? Refined Vim Experience for OS X. Project VimR is an attempt to refine the Vim experience. The goal is to build an editor that uses Vim inside with many of the convenience GUI features similar to those present in modern editors for Mac.

Atom and VimR belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.

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, VimR provides the following key features:

Full Vim
File Browser
Fuzzy File Find

Atom and VimR are both open source tools. Atom with 49.2K GitHub stars and 12.1K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than VimR with 4.14K GitHub stars and 121 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Atom and VimR

Andrey Ginger

Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · May 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 493.2K 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 Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface.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

Felix Hungenberg

Graphic Designer & Web Developer at hosting.de GmbH · Jan 9, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 111.9K views

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I use Visual Studio Code every day, it was very refreshing coming from Atom to get a lightweight, all i need setup right out of the box.

After working with Atom for around 2 years I switch to VSCode.

Here is why:

Color display of variables in code. This may now sound much, but it improve the display of scss variables and its a core feature.
Out of the box features.
Automation! VSCode suggests usefull things to you.
Integraded console. I love the console in VSCode. It is faster than my 'default' cmd on Windows. For Atom you would have to install a package, that doesn't work so well on Windows.
Output logging per Plugin.
Setup time. In VSCode I can set up my workspace in under 5 minutes. For Atom I need
Plugins work perfect out of the box. This is a mayor one for me. For example: In order to set up Editorconfig you have to adjust mutliple values and plugins to get it work. Plugin creators of Editorconfig for Atom are not to blame: They include a linter, that verifies whether the settings are correct or not.
Git implementation. VSCode ships with Git and even if the git packet of vscode doesn't look like much, theres a lot to it. For example you can watch changes inline.
Minimap and vertical scrollbar. This feature is much better implementet in VSCode and you don't need an extra plugin.
Auto completion. Sass mixins example: @include and you press CTRL+SPACE and VSCode shows you every Sass mixin.
Copy paths from open file tab. In VSCode you can copy the path of an file directly when you have it open. In atom you need to select 'show in tree view' and than copy the path or relative path.
Tree view. The tree view VSCode automaticly brings you to the current open file by default. This helps when working with components.
File search. The file search supports the asterisk so you can search for eg molecule-*.ts.
Tasks support. Tasks are integrated in VSCode so eg. for Typescript you can CTRL + SHIFT + B and select tsc: watch - tsconfig.ts.
Short waiting time. For example when deleting files or beautifying 20.000 lines of json (Atom hangs up).
More releases. Faster feature implementation. Active community.

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Pros of Atom

Pros of VimR

529
Free
449
Open source
343
Modular design
321
Hackable
316
Beautiful UI
170
Github integration
147
Backed by github
119
Built with node.js
113
Web native
107
Community
35
Packages
18
Cross platform
5
Multicursor support
5
Nice UI
5
TypeScript editor
3
Snippets
3
Simple but powerful
3
Open source, lots of packages, and so configurable
3
cli start
3
Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR
2
Awesome
2
Smart TypeScript code completion
2
Well documented
2
It's powerful
2
Code readability
1
works with GitLab
1
User friendly
1
full support
1
vim support
1
Split-Tab Layout
1
"Free", "Hackable", "Open Source", The Awesomness
1
Apm publish minor
1
Hackable and Open Source
1
Consistent UI on all platforms
0
Publish

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Cons of Atom

Cons of VimR

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 VimR?

Project VimR is an attempt to refine the Vim experience. The goal is to build an editor that uses Vim inside with many of the convenience GUI features similar to those present in modern editors for Mac.

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What companies use Atom?

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What are some alternatives to Atom and VimR?

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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