Well, it's a web browser after all.

Is it like brackets?

Brackets didn't make the (I think quite arrogant) decision only to work on Macs. That's an absurdity for an editor built on top of a web browser.

Not just for Mac. Check the Readme.

I've only barely used either. On the surface, they seem very similar -- folder view on the left, editor tabs up top.

This may be irrational, but I never had a great feeling about Brackets because it was an Adobe product.

brackets is open source http://brackets.io/

about this, I use brackets, a lot of it does look like brackets maybe with some ideas taken from light table http://www.lighttable.com/

There's a thread on discuss.atom.io about what distinguishes the two http://discuss.atom.io/t/what-distinguishes-atom-io-from-bra... I guess I don't feel atom does enough different from brackets that I can justify switching editor at this point, but if anyone has more to add than was found there I'm interested to hear.

Cheers, I didn't realize that Brackets was open source.

brackets have the live edit feature and the snippet editing thing. IMO working with JS/Html/Css doesn't get any better than that.