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Atom v1.0 is lot better than beta releases, but not as good as Sublime. Atom is open source unlike Sublime which is closed source, so in the long run atom is definitely going to be the winner. For Now, Sublime is much better than Atom and there is lot of gap in terms of performance. Lets hope, Atom gets better & better with releases.

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>Atom v1.0 is lot better than beta releases, but not as good as Sublime. Atom is open source unlike Sublime which is closed source, so in the long run atom is definitely going to be the winner.

No, it's just going to remain open in the long run. That's the guarantee from Open Source. Not that it will be "the winner".

GIMP hasn't matched Photoshop in ages, Gnome and KDE are not up to par with OS X and Windows 10 even after all these years, OpenOffice never matched Office in speed and stability, the list can go on...

Agree with you, No Arguments about that. With Github being behind the Atom, just being positive that it might actually win over sublime.

What makes a winner? Everyone I know has purchased Sublime and will likely purchase 3 when its out of beta. It must generate millions of dollars in revenue, and has an incredibly active community, just judging from the package control website.

Open source doesn't magically "win" over closed/commercial just by the nature of being open source.

I didn't mean that way, open source wins over closed source every time; Atleast Atom has lot of contributors and being pushed very quickly, which has something of around 155 releases in a year (from public beta to stable 1.0). That's really a good sign, not sure if it continues; if it does, it's going to be really good editor in the long run.

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