I think you may be right, I write some code as part of my job, but it is not my main job. I fell on Atom purely because I was trying Atom out at the time when I happened to get into a larger than normal project. Otherwise I would probably have stuck with Sublime (from which it obviously takes some inspiration).

I have had to do a little with Visual Studio in the past, and I feel like you spend more time learning the IDE than you do learning to code. I think I will stick with Atom and leave Vim, Emacs et al to the full timers!