There is no wrong answer. Which ever tool works best for your coding style is key.
Webstorm and Dreamweaver are code IDEs. There is a huge difference. + where is Atom?
I used Sublime for a long time. After Githubs "atom" came out I started to use it parallel with sublime. (In the early days atom ha many bugs). After some time I and the rest of the office I work switched from sublime to atom.
Some Reasons: - Active development - Nice Pluginsystem - Support for many languages, when your language is not supported I am sure there is a plugin - We just like it better ;)
Oh, man, what a coincidence. This happens the same day, Quora told me that I'm the top writer in the "Text Editors" category. (I know, shameless self-promotion inc. ;) )
OK, seriously now, there was a similar question a while ago, so I will just copy-paste my answer:
I've tried several editors/IDEs - Sublime Text 2/3, Brackets, Notepad++(don't ask), Atom, Komodo IDE, but currently my main editor is Jetbrains WebStorm. It's all you can ask from a JavaScript/Front-End Development IDE, even a little more:
That taken, there are some cons though - it's somehow ugly, compared to other editors, it's a paid product, but there are is a discount for startups(50% off) and even more - it's free if you are a student or an Open Source contributor. Another thing worth mentioning is that sometimes Webstorm can become slow and clunky.
For some quick edits I'm using Sublime Text, because well.... it's super fast!
P.S. For some time now I've been messing with Visual Studio Code and it's great so far. Some of the features - fast, git integration, fast, refactoring, fast, debugging, fast, great language support, fast, one of the best autocompletes, autosave, build in task runners, user customization. Oh, did I mention how blazing fast it is! :)
P.S* I feel like an editor whore now...
Like @fazlerocks wrote, Visual Studio Code has progressed really fast the last couple of months. The team is adding new features like extensions, better ES6 support, JSX Support, File Picker improvements, extensions, etc. The editor was even open-sourced last month. More and more friends and colleagues are moving to VSCode and I'm in a great dilemma now - sticking with WebStorm or switching to VSCode.
I think there's no single right answer... and there's not even a single answer: my favorite editor usually depends on the component I'm working on, and it's very common that I have opened at the same time Atom, VS Code and IntelliJIdea (the 3 I use the most). If I have to look at some CSS edition, Brackets is great but I really don't do it very often.
VSCode is great for Typescript, IntellijIdea is great for Scala, and Atom is really nice for so many languages that's it's my usual sandbox ;-)
(And that's only for web-related code editor, RStudio is my other sandbox as soon as I have anything maths/stats related to do)
I moved from WebStorm to Visual Studio Editor recently. So far I am really impressed with it. Here are a few things I like about it:
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Atom.io seems to be left off of here. I would vote for that one.