Atom Professional, Scientific, and Technical 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

5 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services5

Ideal editor for developers interested in fully customizing their experience

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 26, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atom is a powerful editor that is being used by development teams for coding in any given programming language. We were looking to unify the developer's experience and work on a single platform, as opposed to everyone having their own editor. Although it is not made mandatory, we had a pretty good and quick adoption of the product throughout the years. Atom is very customizable, which helps tremendously.

Pros

Lightweight, intuitive interface that is almost self-explanatory
Highly customizable (themes, plugins, language support)
Great community support with open-source extensions

Cons

Some stability issues such as intermittent crashes
Developers with advanced needs will not find equivalents to VS Studio
Managing plugins at the corporate level can be cumbersome

Likelihood to Recommend

Atom is great for developers looking for a completely hackable experience. There is a ton of plugins available to you, and you can really build an editor that matches your own personal taste. The performance is also pretty neat and does not impact your CPU as much as the competition.

Verified User

Team Lead in Professional Services (Information Technology and Services company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Beautiful experience with Atom IDE

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atom IDE is a very nice application having inbuilt CLI and it supports multiple extensions and programming languages. I and our coder are using Atom and VS Code mainly because these applications are easy to use and need very low system configurations.

Pros

Integrated CLI
Lightweight
Easy to user
Support extensions

Cons

Affects performance
Plugins issues
Support GIT

Likelihood to Recommend

I have been using this product since my college days when I had a very low system configuration PC. It's a very good application but sometimes the mix plugins back-end gives unnecessary errors. All features like multiple programming language support, extensions, etc. are personally good. Sometimes we face performance effects when using for the last many hours.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

WordPress developers get ready for the ATOM bomb...!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 18, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Atom for coding in different software projects. All developers use Atom, but we also have other editors available. The GIT integration of Atom makes our workflow more manageable. The FTP plugin also helps to connect and edit files on the server directly.

Pros

Git integration
FTP integration

Cons

Git integration is very complicated to set up.
In general Atom offers complex features that require time to get familiarized with.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for developers and people who are writing with text editors all day. Not so suitable for casual use, as it is rather complex to use efficiently, and it takes a couple of seconds more to open than Notepad.

Daniel Städeli

Business Owner in Information Technology at Freelance (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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A text editor for general analytics workflows made easy

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 4, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Atom is being used by my team as one of the primary text editors for data analytics and machine learning workflows when it comes to making modifications to code and writing analytic SQL queries. The primary business problem it addresses is a cross-platform analytics tool that all our team members can use to make changes to code. It also allows for plugin extensibility, and thereby reduces the amount of friction when sharing text and code that needs highlighting.

Pros

Extensibility via plugins.
Code highlighting in various languages.
Cross-platform support.

Cons

User-support.
Bug and crash handling.
Lagging when connected to a server.

Likelihood to Recommend

Atom is well-suited when you need a cross-platform text editor that is basic and highlights code well. This is not an integrated development environment, and therefore you should focus on finding one of those programs instead if your goal is to have a whole testing, run, and automation suite. This works well for rudimentary editing supported by external tools that do running or testing.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Information Technology and Services company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Why do I use Atom?

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 4, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it for myself since the department policy allows us to choose our preferred editor. I use it to write code usually for websites, i.e. PHP, CSS, JS, and HTML files.

Pros

It have a nice encoding handling approach. Some editors don't work properly with different encoding files in the same project and Atom deals with that in a almost transparent way.
The approach of folders like projects is also more productive than that complex way like another old standard editors.
The resource of collapsing blocks of code is very useful in a developers' daily.

Cons

The "search in directory" option could have a hotkey (shortcut).
The editor could keep search results on tabs, allowing to browse between several searches.
The editor could support "CTRL+click" as "go to declaration" feature. It's a kind of standard that I still miss, I often need to go to the declaration of a variable or method and find it by search, specially when you just can have one search at once, is really a pain.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's more appropriated when the developer does not have to work with many projects at once and the project is not too big.

Reges Mendes

Senior Developer in Information Technology at SolarWinds MSP (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)

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