Based on our record, Atom-IDE should be more popular than Microsoft Visual Studio. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
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: almost 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 Although it’s no longer maintained, I’ve had no issues with the Atom IDE package.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
While the editor seems to old fashioned there isn't anything particularly wrong in using it for learning. Alternatively you can propose to your teacher about https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/express/ . IMO editor is not a big factor when we are talking about high school learning. Source: almost 3 years ago
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