Atom Educational Services Reviews & Insights

Score9.5 out of 10

90 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Atom are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Highly Customizable: Many users have praised Atom for its high level of customization. They appreciate the ability to tailor their coding environment to their preferences, with various themes and extensions available. This feature allows them to make their code easier to read and navigate, enhancing their overall coding experience.

Code Hinting Features: Several reviewers have been impressed with Atom's code hinting capabilities. This feature helps them write code faster and integrates well with services like LINT, allowing them to clean up their code according to their team's style choices. Users find this functionality particularly useful in speeding up their coding process.

Free Software: The fact that Atom is free has been seen as a major advantage by many users. They appreciate not having to invest in expensive software while still being able to access a robust coding environment. This affordability makes it accessible to a wide range of developers.

Atom Reviews

6 Reviews

Educational ServicesHigher Education3Education Management1E-Learning2

Atom - A simplest, finest , open-source text editor

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atom is used by only the development team in my organization. Atom has a simple UI that makes users use it without any issues. It has support for GitHub and has a lot of plugins. Along with this, a user can write its own plugin. Support code formating for different languages and its minimap feature also helps sometimes. It is being used to develop clean, well-structured code for our product. It is simply perfect because of everything it provides. The next best thing about Atom is that you have git control over it which helps to make things super easy in terms of open sourcing.

Pros

Adding packages in preferable language
Formatting of code making it easy to read for all users
Support for GitHub and plugins and plugin development
It is able to handle large amounts of data without slowing down

Cons

There should be a better user tips manual page to learn keyboard shortcuts
It would also be beneficial if mathematical and data analytic tools were added
it has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on it
Sometimes, atom closed suddenly and do not open again
It still lacks better options with the previews even though there are already some by users adding plugins
It doesn't have self-correct features for lint errors, unlike IntelliJ

Likelihood to Recommend

Atom is well suited for users who just beginning with their development careers. For developing production level or at the local level, for any use-case Atom is well suited as it provides support for many plugins and version control too. It is not suitable for heavy projects because it takes a lot of time in getting opened and also stops unexpectedly in between. It can be used by early-stage startups who are just beginning their project but when there is an ample amount of code, then they must switch to some other software.

Deepshi Sharma

Software Engineer in Engineering at Kognoz Consulting (E-Learning, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Atom is a solid editor for the long run

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Atom to edit code on the Mac and Windows platform. As a technologist, I do recommend this editor to both faculty and students because it is free and open-source. It is a good text editor and code editor with lots of functionality. It is modern and seems rather stable. I think it will be around for quite a while.

Pros

Edit code in multiple windows.
Atom is available on many computing platforms.

Cons

Atom seems to be a bit aggressive with the "help" and "tip" system. You have to turn that stuff off or it is annoying.
On occasion, sometimes a package does not work, they need to pull those.

Likelihood to Recommend

Atom is quick to install and get going across a variety of platforms. The open-source nature says that this editor will always be around. I would recommend this editor to someone new to editing code. There is a good help and tip system. I don't think that this editor would appeal to minimalists because it is way maximum on what you can do. Lots of features and lots of configuration that is possible.

Jason Smith, DPA

Instructional Technologist in Information Technology at Pomona College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

For web developers Atom has feature-sets that make development very easy

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Atom as our coding platform for everything on our website. It is integrated with git so we have version control. It is a very fast and free alternative to using Adobe Dreamweaver which is the subscription we have.

Pros

Integration with GIT.
Code coloring.
Code hints.

Cons

A better live HTML code rendering system.

Likelihood to Recommend

HTML, CSS, and Javascript are flawless. Code hints provide an easy way to code.

Verified User

Director in Marketing (Higher Education company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Code writing made fast and simple

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 4, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atom is a free text editor that is outstanding for writing made forms of code. I currently use if for composing HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JSON for local testing prior to uploading code to an LMS or CMS.

Pros

Atom is highly customizable and allows for various themes and extensions that can make your code easier to read.
Atom has many code hinting features that allow users to write faster and integrate with services likeLINT that can clean up your code once your done to meet your internal teams style choices.
It's very fast and manages projects well - Accessing other files within a related folder(s) is very easy and intuitive.
It's free!

Cons

The basic setting it comes with aren't very user-friendly, and if you're new to code editing you might struggle with getting it set-up in an effective way.
I sometimes have issues with Atom launching from Command line on a MAC(Hyper).
Dreamweaver users my dislike the lack of a 'design view' but there workarounds.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Atom is pretty standard to most serious coders as it's lightweight, fast, and free. Some people prefer VS Studio which is a very similar product.

Mark Nowowiejski

Sr. Instructional Designer in Information Technology at Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (Education Management, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Atom: You have to build it bit by bit.

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

February 28, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atom is being used by select individuals at the University of Kansas, and not by the organization as a whole. Its used primarily as a simple text editor, but can be configured to be used as a full IDE. It is highly configurable to domain-specific problems, but its core competency is text editing.

Pros

Highly configurable. Atom has packages that can be managed through the application or via command line. This gives it incredible power for advanced users.
Blank Start. Atom opens up by default to a blank note page which can be saved anywhere. It can also be used to open projects, but sometimes notes aren't attached to specific projects. This is useful for quick notes.
Run anywhere. Due to it being an electron application, Atom can run on Windows/Mac and Linux. This is incredibly powerful, and a surprising differentiator for a desktop application.

Cons

Lack of sync. Atom doesn't have sync built in. I know this can be configured to work with Dropbox or Git, but web applications that sync have a clear advantage.
Lack of mobile. Not all notes are taken on a computer, and several other note taking apps have an option to take and review notes on a phone.
Lack of built-in IDE features. Atom can be configured to be an IDE, but other applications are IDEs by default. It takes a good amount of configuration to bring atom up to that level.

Likelihood to Recommend

Atom is great for people that need a desktop text editor, and who like to customize their experience. It's incredibly powerful and serves as a good backup to a full-fledged IDE. It probably won't appeal to those that have to do complex development work, or to those that prefer a web-experience due to the automated syncing.

Matthew Deakyne

Academic Services Manager in Information Technology at The University of Kansas (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Atom - beautiful, functional, customizable. What more could you want?

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 15, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atom is my IDE of choice for any web development work I assist with. It is not used department-wide-- solely within the IT section of our company. Atom provides a clean, highly configurable, highly organized, and highly functional environment for coding in all languages--though my experience with it consists only of Javascript, HTML, and CSS.

Pros

Automatic syntax coloring and formatting. Code is so, so much easier to read and write when related keywords are automatically color-coordinated and indentation happens automatically.
Community-driven plugins. Because Atom is open-source, anyone can write a plugin to add functionality and features to the software--this means, as a user, you have hundreds of valuable tools at your fingertips, for free.
Aesthetics. As long as you're staring at your computer for 8+ hours per day, you may as well be looking at something aesthetically pleasing, right? Not only is Atom's interface clean and well-polished, you can download custom themes, shift between light/dark mode, and so much more. Having control over the look and feel of your IDE makes long hours of coding so much more enjoyable.

Cons

The tabs that automatically open upon launching the app can be a little cluttered and annoying--they can almost certainly be toggled off in Settings, but their default behavior is slightly irksome.

Likelihood to Recommend

Atom is well-suited for anyone who needs a robust text editor for writing computer code. It's excellent for beginners (like me) in that it provides auto-completion, helps with formatting, and is generally user-friendly. It's also stellar for code experts in that it provides a built-in GitHub interface, Teletype for collaboration in real time, and much more. If you're writing more than a few lines of code for any reason, Atom is absolutely a good choice.

Verified User

Manager in Product Management (E-Learning company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Atom - A simplest, finest , open-source text editor

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Adding packages in preferable language
Formatting of code making it easy to read for all users
Support for GitHub and plugins and plugin development
It is able to handle large amounts of data without slowing down

Cons

There should be a better user tips manual page to learn keyboard shortcuts
It would also be beneficial if mathematical and data analytic tools were added
it has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on it
Sometimes, atom closed suddenly and do not open again
It still lacks better options with the previews even though there are already some by users adding plugins
It doesn't have self-correct features for lint errors, unlike IntelliJ

Likelihood to Recommend

Deepshi Sharma

Software Engineer in Engineering at Kognoz Consulting (E-Learning, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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