Not a stupid question at all! It is just a code editor. They do have an IDE for compiling ( https://ide.atom.io ) but I haven’t used it so I’m not sure about it’s capabilities. Source: about 2 years ago

Gotcha! Although it’s no longer maintained, I’ve had no issues with the Atom IDE package. It contains a lot of the same features that you’d expect like code completion, code linting to check for errors before you compile, and the ability to build and run from the Atom editor. Source: over 2 years ago

But, just because you use Linux on your server and are good at the shell commands, does not mean your web app is secure. Sure you may know how to use vim, but neither that will stop a hacker. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

But, vim can be quite difficult to learn because the keybindings are unusual. You can use vimtutor or vim.is to learn quickly. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

It is keyboard driven and has quite a hard learning curve (learn vim). Because it's been designed decades ago, some things makes less sense today. To give you an example, you can use both the keys h,j,k,l and the arrow keys to move the cursor. That's because in those times, there were no arrow keys. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

Vim is one of my favorite terminal apps. It's a command line editor (has GUI version too) that let's you edit files very quickly. The whole app is using keyboard shortcuts that can be challenging to learn. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

So what to do? If you want to learn vim quickly, you can use vim.is. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago