[jackyinger]

On top of this I found atom to be pretty unstable, especially when using a bunch of plugins.

Text editors are a primary tool and instability is unacceptable. I can't remember any time vim crashed on me.

[brogrammernot]

I agree with you but comparing VIM to Atom or IntelliJ or Visual Studio is an orange to apple comparison.

[clhodapp]

Comparing Atom to one of the native-window ports of Vim or Emacs seems pretty fair to me.