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by mastazi 3513 days ago
I have used Atom for about one year and then went back to Sublime. I do mostly back-end web development, in various languages.

I believe Sublime is a superior product in terms of performance and stability.

Reasons for switching back:

1 - Atom has some long-standing bugs that compromise its usability (e.g. there is a bug where you basically can't scale down a window after it was maximised: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10720 )

2 - Atom is slower, you may think a fraction of a second when opening a file or doing a search should not make much of a difference but, when you are using an editor every day for many hours, it ends up affecting your productivity.

PS I liked VS Code but it's different enough from the other 2 editors that it would take time for me to become proficient with it. I especially liked VS Code's debugging features.