For some less positive feedback on Atom, which reinforces some of creshal's points, see the Atom section of this text editor rundown:
http://eev.ee/blog/2015/05/31/text-editor-rundown/
I've also frequently seen complaints to the effect that Atom is much too slow, even on machines only a few years old. Even my 486 laptop back in 1997 could run a text editor with syntax highlighting (specifically, JPad for programming in Java). What are editors doing these days that needs so much CPU power?