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ad is described as '(pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to ad for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best ad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ad are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. Light Table icon
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    Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  2. Kakoune icon
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    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
     
  3. jEdit icon
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    jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    GitHub Codespaces is an instant, cloud-based development environment that uses a container to provide you with common languages, tools, and utilities for development. GitHub Codespaces is also configurable, allowing you to create a customized development environment for your...

    24 Github Codespaces alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • GitHub
     
  5. Textastic icon
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    Textastic is an advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH.

    67 Textastic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Textastic is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to ad.

    • Textastic is Paid and Proprietaryad is Free and Open Source
  6. Pluma icon
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    Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...

    159 Pluma alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes.

    These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

    • Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes
    • Multi-language use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Haroopad icon
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    Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Nova icon
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    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

    126 Nova alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Graviton Editor icon
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    Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    McWig is a modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. ne icon
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    ne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.

    42 ne alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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