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Christopher Floyd
Courses Plus Student 4,748 PointsDreamweaver vs. Atom?
Thinking about switching TO adobe Dreamweaver FROM Atom. I hear they are doing good things. can anyone provide some insight on some pro's and con's? personal or otherwise. thanks! Dreamweaver claims the can do some really good things with responsive design, and they also have the creative cloud app package. thanks in advance!
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Christopher Gardner
12,719 PointsIn all honesty, you'd be hard pressed to find developers working in Dreamweaver nowadays. I personally don't care for all the clutter that Dreamweaver has going on in it's UI, but that may not bother some. I just feel like it's a bit bloated. A text editor will take up a lot less space compared to Dreamweaver. I just like something clean and simple that I can easily add plugins as needed. For this reason, I was a big fan of Sublime Text for the longest time, then switched over to Visual Studio Code a couple months ago.
It's been a while since I really touched Dreamweaver (about 4 or 5 years, so maybe they've improved a bit since I last used it, though. I know that Brackets is another fairly popular code editor, also created by Adobe. Another thing to keep in mind is that Dreamweaver may be a little slower to pick up certain capabilities. It wasn't until 2017 that CSS preprocessing was allowed.
It used to be a bit popular to be able to work with the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) side of it, but working with that used to output messy code that is a pain to deal with (again, this might be better since I last worked in it). Hope this helps!
Christopher Floyd
Courses Plus Student 4,748 PointsIt does help, thank you!