Atom Text Editor

The Atom editor was GitHub’s answer to the revolutionary Sublime light-weight text editor. The Electron framework was built specifically for Atom. The goal was to use only web technology instead of C++ and Python which is what Sublime is built on. While many people prefer Atom today over the far more popular and powerful VSCode it lacks some rather significant necessities according to most developers. Atom is not recommended for this course mostly because we are focusing on editing code with Vim above all and secondarily with web tools and VSCode.