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Atom is too slow to be useable in real world projects. It's fine for hobby coding a few files. But try opening anything larger: it's painfully horribly slow. This is not something that can be fixed; it's because they are using a browser to render the code. Therefore Atom has no chance of replacing Sublime Text. Sorry.

Are you not trolling? I dont think so is allowed in HN

At least 3) is adressed with Chocolat, an other text editor for Mac OS.

I've came to like it while pondering dropping 70$ on ST when i got Chocolat for free in some kind of software bundle (can't recall which), so there's that..

Atom is open source and have gained popularity and momentum very quickly - it's also backed by the king of source code.

I believe Atom will run laps around ST before 4 development is even started.

I doubt they'll ever get the performance of ST though. I use ST3 daily and have tried Atom a couple times, it's just not fluid enough to feel comfortable with.