Sublime Text user here, who switched to Atom a year ago and never looked back. Never had any of the issues others described having with Atom such as slowness, etc. What I love about Atom is that it&#x27;s under active, fast-paced development, that it&#x27;s super-easy to customize (first thing was to increase the font-size of the left-hand folder pane), and the available plugins are fantastic. It probably also helps that extending Atom is much more approachable given that it&#x27;s all Javascript, rather than Python with ST.
Furthermore, as others commented, the plugins have much more reach into the editor and can do a lot more.<p>For example, the new block decorations coming in 1.6 are going to be an awesome API for plugin authors!
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