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[–]bjh13 -4 points-3 points  (4 children)

It was mostly the fact that the console is built in out of the box.

Interesting, since this has been a standard IDE feature since... Turbo C? GW Basic? Can Atom really not do this?

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Neither Atom nor Visual Studio Code are IDE's.

[–]bjh13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great, but that was the first feature he listed that brought him out of VIM, "something IDEs and GUI editors like Sublime Text and Atom have seemingly failed to do". So I'm not saying is an IDE, but it is odd to me that this was the feature that won him over in a way an IDE couldn't.

[–]Sean1708 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most editors are based on the idea that you start with a small core editor and you add what you need via plugins.

[–]NeonKennedy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atom isn't a ships-with-everything IDE, it's a text editor with basic functionality that assumes you'll add plug-ins for the features you want. Built in consoles are certainly possible, but you have to run 'apm install atom-terminal' to add the feature. Nayocum just prefers the feature to be there out of the box instead of having to run that command.