Atom is a text editor. It's new, it's shiny, and it has a lot of good and bad sides. I work in a lab full of kernel developers, and in the kernel, there are no IDEs. There's no real metadata you can get out of your compiler (given the kernel isn't very clang friendly), there's certainly nothing like that you can get out of your build system, so "plain old" text editors reign supreme. It's a vim or Emacs show.
