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Stacks16K

Followers13.8K

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Stacks32

Followers31

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Votes5

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Atom vs BBEdit: 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; BBEdit: A proprietary text editor for macOS. It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.

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

Atom is an open source tool with 49.5K GitHub stars and 12.4K 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 BBEdit is used by LIVE IT, AppUp.io, and Sourcegraph. Atom has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1096 company stacks & 4998 developers stacks; compared to BBEdit, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

Decisions about Atom and BBEdit

Andrey Ginger

Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · May 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 438.8K 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 Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface.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 BBEdit

528
Free
447
Open source
342
Modular design
320
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
TypeScript editor
5
Nice UI
5
Multicursor support
3
cli start
3
Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR
3
Simple but powerful
3
Open source, lots of packages, and so configurable
3
Snippets
2
It's powerful
2
Code readability
2
Awesome
2
Smart TypeScript code completion
2
Well documented
1
"Free", "Hackable", "Open Source", The Awesomness
1
Apm publish minor
1
works with GitLab
1
full support
1
vim support
1
Split-Tab Layout
1
Consistent UI on all platforms
1
User friendly
1
Hackable and Open Source
0
Publish

1
Support for character encodings and file formats
1
Flexible project file management
1
Snippets functionality includes substitutions
1
Highly extensible (plugins, text filters, etc)
1
Superb regex find/replace

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Cons of Atom

Cons of BBEdit

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 BBEdit?

It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.

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What are some alternatives to Atom and BBEdit?

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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