Atom: Awesome Text Editor! Free Sublime Alternative.

A few months ago I heard about an editor called Sublime Text which totally changed my ideas about text editors. Sublime Text is awesome because of its dark theme (which is great for the eyes), auto character closing and indenting, and even text suggestions similar to an IDE. While Sublime is awesome, it is not free. Sublime can be used for evaluation for free but a $70 license must be purchased for continued use.

It was then I began a search for a free text editor similar to Sublime, with a cutting edge feel and smart features.

Image from http://www.atom.io

I came across an editor called Atom, an open source text editor developed by GitHub. It has an amazing 21st century feel and looks great. It shares many amazing features with Sublime but lacks the IDE-like text suggestion feature which in most cases is not really necessary.