Atom, the Only choice

Text Editors has always been on the crux of developers and they always finds the topic hot in terms debating and choosing the best text editor for their primary work. The modern Text Editor like Sublime text now can satisfy vast range of developers, programmers and desigers in general.

However, If you are a peculiar developer who just want to make your editor follow your own style familiar with Sublime than others, Atom will be a perfect alternative.

Atom's a promising star for open source Text Editor made by Github and available for Window, OS X and Linux/Unix. Different to other Text Editors, Atom is built based on modern langauages: Javascript, HTML and CSS so nothing wrong if call it as a Web based editor.

• Open Source and backed by Github: Github want to build a thriving, long-lasting community around a Atom as Vim or Emacs so it has to be open source

• Hackable environment To be more precise, Atom text editor uses the preprocessor of JavaScript and CSS — CoffeeScript and lessCSS. And, if you are into web development, hacking and developing packages for Atom is easy and doable. According to their documentation, you can also hack the text editor using JavaScript and CSS, but they have recommended the use of the preprocessor as most of the Atom text editor code is written in it.

• Modular Desing Modular Design is embraced by Atom. If you know hacking, then you can easily replace one of its core modules with one of your own. With so much customization and core hacking capacity, the atom can be customized according to the developer requirements.

• Great User Interface With similarities with the sublime, the user interface of the atom is amazing. It is also customizable and you can customize it by adding new CSS rules in the atom .config file. The UI is also consistent on different platforms, partly because of the web technologies used to make the User interface.

• Plentiful packages and Shortcut Any great text editor comes with tons of packages. With sublime text supporting more than 2500 plugins/packages, Atom is not far behind. The number might be not as big as sublime’s packages but does have a commendable collection of packages for the users.

• Perfect Documentation and availibility of API Atom offers one of the best documentation for its users. The fact that documentation transforms the user experience is true in this case. With detailed documentation, you can find everything related to Atom and its hackability.

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