Summary

Atom is open and for free. Atom has a popular look and feel. Atom is flexible and always up to date. Atom is written in technics a web developer should know.

Pro

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  • flexible
    • simple setup and configuration
    • easy to write my own (color-)themes with less and CoffeeScript
  • hackable
    • easy to configure and customize
    • easy to write my own packages
  • usable
    • very good autocomplete
    • easy to find, update and install packages
    • lot of packages and themes from the community
    • well known Key Bindings
  • frontend desktop app
    • easy to understand for frontend developer
  • open source
    • free as in freedom
    • use and modify without restrictions

Contra

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  • slow sometimes
    • because it is a web technology based desktop app it is not written in c++
    • sometimes you have to reload the editor
  • brand new
    • sometimes buggy
    • like: you need the keyboard-localization package for \ and @ alt-gr + (q|\) in the first versions