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# Atom Text Editor Turns 1
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/atom-text-editor-turns-1/
- Published: 2016-06-28T13:22:37.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-28T13:22:37.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Atom blog 1 year ago this weekend](http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html?ref=birchtree.me):

> Today we’re proud to announce Atom 1.0\. It’s amazing to think Atom has only been out and available to the public for a little over a year. A lot has happened since then. Atom has been downloaded 1.3 million times, and serves 350,000 monthly active users. The community has created 660 themes, and 2,090 packages including can’t-live-without packages that have their own mini communities like the linter, autocomplete-plus, and minimap. 

[I switched to Atom](https://birchtree.me/blog/atom-is-my-new-text-editor-of-choice/) back in March and I'm very happy with the move. Atom has a wonderful community of people working on building this app up to a strong Sublime Text competitor. It's not as blazingly fast as Sublime, but I prefer it in every other way. Happy first birthday, Atom!