
JOE Alternatives
JOE is described as 'Full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions' and is a Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to JOE for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best JOE alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JOE are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Vim and Kate.
Alternatives list

- 209 UltraEdit alternatives
UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).
Cost / License
- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux


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UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to JOE.
- UltraEdit is Paid and Proprietary
- 155 SciTE alternatives
SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...


- 103 Leafpad alternatives
Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
- MacPorts


- 157 Xed alternatives
A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.


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Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...



- 132 Programmer's Notepad alternatives
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


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- 184 Graviton Editor alternatives
Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.


- 57 ecode alternatives
ecode is a lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance. It has been developed with the hardware-accelerated eepp GUI, which provides the core technology for the editor.

- 168 Judge0 IDE alternatives
Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)

Judge0 IDE is the most popular SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to JOE.
- Judge0 IDE is Free and Open Source
- 87 MacVim alternatives
MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.























