picotool VS Atom

Compare picotool vs Atom and see what are their differences.

picotool

Tools and Python libraries for manipulating Pico-8 game files. http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php (by dansanderson)

Atom

:atom: The hackable text editor (by atom)
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picotool Atom
2 284
362 58,803
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0.0 8.1
3 months ago over 1 year ago
Python JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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picotool

Posts with mentions or reviews of picotool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-06.
  • Parsing Cart Metadata
    1 project | /r/pico8 | 2 Apr 2022
    I am struggling to find information on how to parse metadata (Cart ID, author, cart version, etc.) from downloaded carts. In my use case, I am looking for the cart ID, but I'm sure the other information will be useful. From my understanding, stat(101) should give me the ID, but the issue is that I am running from a local cart, not off of the BBS, so printing stat(101) always returns "[nil]". Similarly, stat(102) returns "0", meaning I am running from a local file. I have looked at picotool, but the stats command there returns code and other token information, which isn't useful to me. I am familiar with Python, so I can parse the data myself if it comes to that. I just don't know where I should look for that information.
  • Easier to Read Code editor?
    2 projects | /r/pico8 | 6 Jan 2022
    Atom (with language-pico8) in combination with picotool is my choice. I just use PICO-8 for creating assets and testing which can all be automated with a Makefile.

Atom

Posts with mentions or reviews of Atom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing picotool and Atom you can also consider the following projects:

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

Light Table - The Light Table IDE ⛺

Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

thonny - Python IDE for beginners

ConEmu - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more

Vim - The official Vim repository