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Discussion on: 23 Of The Best IDEs For Web Development

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Harish Rajora

Hey Mac!!
Thanks for your comment!
Well, yes definitely some IDE started very slow by just being the text editors such as Atom as you pointed out. But Atom has seen days like no text editor (or maybe Sublime ;). Atom is actually moving towards integrated development. In 2017, GitHub and Facebook decided to make Atom as a software for complete development. Facebook has developed a package of features called Atom-IDE to give it capabilities of a IDE. So, Atom has become much more than editor.
I also believe that open source software rely on a large community. This community gives certain functionalities to the software which makes them feature-rich. Although these capabilities comes as plugin just similar to Jenkins but they certainly do. So, I personally believe achieving those capabilities are a good start for something that started just as a small editor :)
It is completely personal choice though :) Have a good day!!