Sublime vs. Atom – who will win the editor's war?

Sublime is closed source, eh? Atom has my vote all day everyday regardless if it is inferior. If I had to pick an editor and it is between 2 where one is closed source, proprietary software, and the other is open source software, then the latter gets my vote _every single time_.

Just like every 'war' in this industry (language, editor, framework) I say.. who cares. This post is just meant to stoke up some flame war for kharma. Your account is only article submissions, MOST of which are to projects and articles of yours, no comments. I don't normally berate people, but please don't use HN to farm arbitrary points.

Feel free to prove me wrong though. Why are you interested in this? Given that you don't really comment on things I'm a bit skeptical of you having...any reason other than points, but happy to be proven wrong when I accuse someone of farming.

Neither, I think that despite the momentum behind Atom, and the open source nature, that there seems to be a never-ending supply of new text editors over the years. I think you just need to choose VIM or Emacs and be done with it. People have been using either of those for 30 years, ask yourself if you think the time you invest in learning Atom/Sublime will be worth anything in 30 years?

Sublime for most things, but Atom does have a few nice features: better markdown preview, drop down menu for things like autocompletion and snippets, nicer color syntax overall (same theme looks better on Atom, I think), a single file for all snippets (I personally think it makes it easier to manage). Main problem with Atom is speed, but there were also a few poor choices such as the package installation interface.

Actually, I gave up trying to find the perfect editor a long time ago, and now just use different ones for whatever they might do better: emacs for org-mode and ESS, vim for editing on servers, sublime 2 for a few plugins that won't work on 3, but sublime 3 is my home base. That being said, sublime looks like a ghost project, hone update/year is just not enough.

VS Code and Atom are nice but I keep coming back to Sublime for speed. VS Code destroys Atom in that department but Sublime beats them both and with the number of files I open in a day that counts for a lot.

Edit: Wanted to add that VS Code can't open multiple projects either.. huge issue.

Sublime.

I've been using a combination of Sublime and Emacs for the last 6 years but decided to give Atom a try. Talk about a resource hog. It was noticeably decreasing my battery life and I'm not sure they will ever escape that given it is based on Chromium.

A better question might be who will win the hyperbole war. Or the war on apostrophe usage.

I find Sublime better than Atom, but honestly VS Code is really starting to win me over. The price and licensing difference and between the two also makes it easier for me to recommend VS Code to people.

I find Atom to be preferable in many ways, however, more often than not tend to use SublimeText3 instead.

I find Sublime to be cumbersome to customize, however it is definitely significantly less detrimental on either Windows, Linux or Mac in terms of battery/memory and CPU needs.

My only complaint about Atom is I cannot seem to get text wrapping to work the way I have it working in Sublime. This is my primary reason to not use Atom more often.

I uses Sublime haven't used Atom and have not plans to move away from Sublime because it is light wight and easy to use

+1 for mattkrea's comments. Sublime still wins, hands down, with it's ability to open many files, as well as large files, without slowing down.

Sublime much better

notepad++ will win.