[philosopherlawr]

Unlike lots of the posters here, I see a real need for an IDE that's completely free. I have used Eclipse and IntelliJ, and the bloat/bug/setup process in them is incredibly painful. However, I don't know if we're just going to add those problems into atom instead of what makes atom awesome - easy package management, fast text editing - and remove it.

[baby]

I think the bloat about Eclipse and IntelliJ is more about Java. As much as I hate the language, if I have to do some Java I don't think there is a smoother alternative than IntelliJ.

[amorphid]

I'm with you. Free, open source, and useful is awesome. I'll use it, and contribute when able. I wouldn't be a developer today if I didn't have access to these kind of tools when I got started with coding (I was broke, and couldn't have afforded to replace the computer on which I learned).