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  1. Notepad++ icon
     4926 likes

    Free open-source code editor and Notepad replacement supporting multiple languages, featuring high speed, low resource usage, privacy focus, and plugin extensibility.

    Notepad++ screenshot 1
    245 alternatives
    4.0
    Very Good97 reviews
  2. Visual Studio Code icon
     1367 likes

    Free, extensible code editor with Git integration, AI-driven IntelliCode, and 30,000+ extensions, supporting various languages like Python, Java.

    • Code Editor
    • FreeProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Snapcraft
    Visual Studio Code screenshot 1
    199 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good79 reviews
  3. GitHub icon
     1724 likes

    Web-based Git hosting service facilitating collaboration, with features like issue tracking, social networking, and wikis for project management.

    Homepage
    103 alternatives
    3.0
    Fair36 reviews
  4. Python icon
     1404 likes

    Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported.

    • Programming Language
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Symbian S60
    • BSD
    • AROS
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    Python screenshot 1
    94 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent27 reviews
  5. Sublime Text icon
     2037 likes

    Sophisticated text editor for code with sleek interface, multi-select tabs, side-by-side definitions, and swift variable renaming using multiple selections.

    Sublime Text screenshot 1
    189 alternatives
    4.0
    Very Good65 reviews
  6. draw.io icon
     1009 likes

    Privacy-focused diagramming software supporting real-time collaboration, offline mode, and cloud storage without ads or registration.

    • Diagram Editor
    • FreeProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Notion
    • Self-Hosted
    • Nextcloud
    • Microsoft SharePoint
    • Flathub
    • Microsoft OneDrive
    • PortableApps.com
    • Google Drive
    • Google Docs
    • Microsoft Teams
    • Google Slides
    • Flatpak
    • Google Sheets
    Use the diagram editor in dark mode. Go to app.diagrams.net/?splash=0&ui=dark
    129 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent52 reviews
  7. VSCodium icon
     389 likes

    This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.

    • Code Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Electron
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    VSCodium screenshot 1
    193 alternatives
    4.8
    Excellent42 reviews
  8. Git icon
     1085 likes

    Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

    • Version Control System
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
    • Haiku
    36 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent19 reviews
  9. WordPress icon
     1663 likes

    Open-source software for creating websites and blogs with an emphasis on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security.

    • Blog Publishing Tool
    • FreemiumOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    WordPress screenshot 1
    104 alternatives
    3.7
    Good45 reviews
  10. Vim icon
     1340 likes

    Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.

    • Code Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
    Vim screenshot 1
    211 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent25 reviews
  11. Microsoft Visual Studio is an IDE used to create programs, apps, websites, and web services using various frameworks. It supports multiple languages and offers tools for coding, debugging, and design.

    • IDE
    • Free PersonalProprietary
    • Windows
    • Online
    • .NET Framework
    Microsoft Visual Studio screenshot 1
    108 alternatives
    3.4
    Fair18 reviews
  12. Eclipse icon
     1146 likes

    Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know Eclipse as a Java IDE, but it is much more than that- Eclipse actually consists of over 60...

    • IDE
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    eclipse on windows 10
    146 alternatives
    3.8
    Good12 reviews
  13. Java icon
     663 likes

    Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

    • Programming Language
    • Free PersonalOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Java Mobile
    • Symbian S60
    • HP webOS
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • Blackberry 10
    • Kindle Fire
    Java screenshot 1
    73 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good9 reviews
  14. Zed Editor icon
     98 likes

    Blazing fast, collaborative code editor with real-time multi-user support, built-in Vim mode, language-aware syntax trees, integrated terminal, and multi-buffers.

    • Code Editor
    • FreemiumOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Zed Editor screenshot 1
    83 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent13 reviews
  15. JavaScript icon
     629 likes

    JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but also used in many non-browser environments.

    JavaScript screenshot 1
    60 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good16 reviews
  16. Kate icon
     310 likes

    The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application.

    • Code Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
    Kate screenshot 1
    141 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good8 reviews
  17. Geany icon
     575 likes

    Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.

    • Code Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
    Geany screenshot 1
    149 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good19 reviews
  18. DBeaver icon
     368 likes

    A versatile, open-source database tool for developers and administrators supporting multiple databases via JDBC drivers with extensive plugins.

    DBeaver screenshot 1
    164 alternatives
    4.5
    Excellent18 reviews
  19. SQLite icon
     348 likes

    SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain.

    70 alternatives
  20. XAMPP icon
     536 likes

    Completely free web server tool with Apache, MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. Ideal for developing and testing websites locally on Windows, Linux, macOS.

    • Web Server
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    XAMPP screenshot 1
    57 alternatives
  21. Wget icon
     436 likes

    GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP(S) and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

    Wget screenshot 1
    24 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent10 reviews
  22. Neovim icon
     186 likes

    Refactored version of Vim with enhanced extensibility and modern plugin architecture.

    • Code Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    Neovim screenshot 1
    103 alternatives
  23. gedit icon
     693 likes

    Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.

    • Text Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • GNOME
    • OpenSolaris
    • Flathub
    The Default look under GNOME with Adwaita
    189 alternatives
  24. Apache NetBeans icon
     741 likes

    A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and even dynamic languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and...

    • IDE
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Editor
    96 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good10 reviews