Atom is an open-source, hackable text editor developed by the team at GitHub. It is designed to be a modern, extensible, and hackable text editor for developers, allowing them to customize the editor to suit their needs. Atom comes with a built-in package manager, making it easy to extend the editor with new packages. It also provides syntax highlighting and auto-completion for a variety of programming languages and frameworks. Atom is built on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Node.js, making it easy to develop and customize. Atom is free and open-source, and is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Notepad ++ has built-in support for many languages and a great plug-in system for more.
notepad ++ has a lot of plug-ins and is not very customizable
The development phase is much faster and more active, with more and more add-ons being added to the marketplace, open source and cross-platform.
Much faster, much better IntelliSense / context-aware suggestions. Even supports debugging.
Seems faster than Atom, less resource hungry. Also using it as the default text editor in macOS.
SublimeText is by far my favorite editor in my 32 years of computing, as it has a multitude of features not found anywhere else and is extensible with packages. Vertical selection and multi-caret editing are two of my most used features.
Sublime text is powerful, since adding the "anaconda" package makes it a full functional IDE, it also supports many important languages such as java, javascript, C#, ruby, perl, to name a few. The only drawback is that it is not free, you have to buy it.
It is very similar and easy to understand and use, this program is probably one of the best alternatives to Atom if you are using it for simple text editing and are not very interested in modifying the program itself, although both programs are really excellent. I prefer to use Atom when I'm on linux and Sublime Text when I'm on Windows.
Vim offers unlimited customization and consumes very less memory, supports command execution from within vim itself and with the right plug-ins works almost like an ide.
While Vim is powerful, it is not an easy replacement for a GUI-based text editor.
Vim is a command line tool, which differs a lot from a GUI application like Atom, Notepad++ or Sublime Text.
MS Visual Studio is an IDE, Atom is a programmer's editor.
It's fine for a dedicated code editor, but it's not very functional as a text editor.
The easiest CLI-based text editor for beginners
nano is a great editor when you are in CLI, however, of course, it does not use GUI or have GUI.
It is more than just a text editor, it is a list interpreter and a shell. Good for computer setups without a mouse
Discontinuado El programa ya no se actualiza. La última versión, 4.2.25, publicada el 28 de octubre de 2012, todavía se puede descargar desde el sitio web oficial.
Discontinued Aptana is still under development on GitHub but the latest version, 3.6.1, was released in October 2014. It lacks Java 8/9 features, as well as more recent JavaScript and HTML 5 features.
Notepad++
Visual Studio Code
Sublime Text
Vim
Microsoft Visual Studio
Brackets
gedit
Geany
GNU nano
PyCharm
GNU Emacs
Kate
Komodo Edit
Qt Creator
Notepad2
Neovim
WebStorm
Aptana Studio
ghostwriter
Bluefish Editor
All necessary features included, light weight and to the point. Good support for RtL scripting and customization. The only possible problem encountered is that the official builds are compiled only for MS-Windows, but it's open source, so it's not a big problem.