&gt; <i>For years, Sublime Text had no serious competitors. Then Atom came along. Don&#x27;t get me wrong</i><p>Let&#x27;s also not forget:<p>o Brackets (which I do prefer over ST for Javascript and CSS),<p>o Visual Studio Code<p>o EditPlus (not so great with plug ins, but it&#x27;s such a solid editor that this was my favourite for years before ST)<p>o Notepad++ (very popular text editor)<p>o Kate (KDE)<p>o Emacs (which has long since also had a GUI)<p>o Plus lots of environment specific editors and micro-IDE&#x27;s such as:<p><pre><code>    . Aracnophilia (I used to swear by this in the 90s),

    . Bluefish,

    . LiteIDE,
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...and so on.<p>I&#x27;m no doubt missing off dozens of popular editors, but bar VSC, all of the above have been around for longer than Atom has and many have been around even longer than ST. So it&#x27;s been a crowded market for quite some time. Which often leaves me wondering why people make such noise about Atom when it always feels somewhat immature compared to any of the above (or at least has done for me whenever I&#x27;ve pulled an ArchLinux AUR package for Atom)<p>As a side note, it&#x27;s a pity HN doesn&#x27;t support an easier method for posting bullet points.