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.