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Atom vs Atom-IDE: 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 Atom-IDE? 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.
Atom can be classified as a tool in the "Text Editor" category, while Atom-IDE is grouped under "Tools for Text Editors".
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, Atom-IDE provides the following key features:
- Busy Signal
- Code Actions
- Code Format
Atom and Atom-IDE are both open source tools. It seems that Atom with 49.3K GitHub stars and 12.1K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Atom-IDE with 946 GitHub stars and 101 GitHub forks.
Lyft, Typeform, and PedidosYa are some of the popular companies that use Atom, whereas Atom-IDE is used by Campus Discounts, VotePen, and W3lcome. Atom has a broader approval, being mentioned in 836 company stacks & 727 developers stacks; compared to Atom-IDE, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
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Pros of Atom
- Free529
- Open source449
- Modular design343
- Hackable321
- Beautiful UI316
- Github integration170
- Backed by github147
- Built with node.js119
- Web native113
- Community107
- Packages35
- Cross platform18
- Multicursor support5
- Nice UI5
- TypeScript editor5
- Snippets3
- Simple but powerful3
- Open source, lots of packages, and so configurable3
- cli start3
- Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR3
- Awesome2
- Smart TypeScript code completion2
- Well documented2
- It's powerful2
- Code readability2
- works with GitLab1
- User friendly1
- full support1
- vim support1
- Split-Tab Layout1
- "Free", "Hackable", "Open Source", The Awesomness1
- Apm publish minor1
- Hackable and Open Source1
- Consistent UI on all platforms1
- Publish0
Pros of Atom-IDE
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Cons of Atom
- Slow with large files19
- Slow startup7
- Most of the time packages are hard to find.2
- No longer maintained1
- Cannot Run code with F51
- Can be easily Modified1