982 Like Eclipse Good alternative? YES NO Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Autocompletion Java IDE Lossless quality Refactoring SCM Integration Add a feature It almost a head to head comparison, the only difference is the paradigm and methodologies used to attain the same goals Guest • Jul 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Eclipse and NetBeans are a very good java-based IDEs Errepunto • Jan 2017 Disagree Agree Support for Keyboard Shortcuts, Eclipse MarketPlace, SCM Integration, CheckStyle Integration, Autocomplete jrmclaughlin • May 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
280 Like Visual Studio Code Good alternative? YES NO Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Built-in Terminal Customizable Intellisense Code completion Dark theme ... Lightweight Multiple cursors Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration GIT support MarkDown support Mercurial support Syntax Highlighting Version and Source control Add a feature
704 Like Microsoft Visual Studio Alternative? YES NO Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as web... Free Personal Windows Web .NET Framework Code completion Automatic content formatting Azure integration C# Scripting Color coding Development API ... Intellisense Support for Multiple programming languages Nuget Add a feature VS is oriented for C, C++ and C# not Java, which is the prime target of netbeans NikosKeyz • Jun 2015 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree NetBeans is an IDE for Java, Microsoft Visual Studio is not. Guest • May 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
342 Like Brackets Good alternative? YES NO Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Autocompletion Live Preview Multiple languages Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Netbeans is more complex, knows PHP, JAVA, C++, while Brackets is for HTML, JavaScript, CSS. Guest • Sep 2016 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Brackets is a text editor while Netbeans is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Brackets is in same class with Notepad++, Atom and Sublime Text. Guest • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Brackets is not an IDE for Java and other languages, as NetBeans is Errepunto • Jan 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
275 Like IntelliJ IDEA Good alternative? YES NO IntelliJ IDEA is a free / commercial Java IDE by JetBrains. Its design is centered on programmer productivity. A number of its features are intended to accelerate... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Autocorrect Built-in Terminal Code completion Dark theme Java IDE Static analysis ... Version and Source control Add a feature Good code Copmlection like inellisense and very user-friendly. mohsenr7596 • Jan 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
207 Like Code::Blocks Good alternative? YES NO Code::Blocks is a free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable. An IDE with all the... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Learn with Flashcards Leadfeeder integration Add a feature
195 Like PhpStorm Good alternative? YES NO Enjoy productive PHP and web development with PhpStorm. Take advantage of deep code understanding, top-notch coding assistance, and support for all major tools and... Commercial Mac Windows Linux Code completion Refactoring Live Preview Syntax Highlighting Add a feature I worked with NetBeans for a couple of years and always loved it, but for professional users the yearly fee is well spent: Nicer interface, better Code Intelligence, more options to fine tune what happens on saving a file (eg. saving or uploading to various locations). You get a couple of feature update each year plus bugfixes, whereas NetBeans is sometimes very slow to update things (support for new version of a language) or to fix known bugs. Guest • Jun 2017 Disagree Agree
198 Like Komodo Edit Good alternative? YES NO Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
323 Like Aptana Studio Alternative? YES NO Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Support for FTP Real time collaboration Add a feature Discontinued Aptana is still in development on GitHub but latest version, 3.6.1, was released in October 2014. It lacks Java 8/9 features, as well as newer Javascript and HTML 5 features.
54 Like Qt Creator Good alternative? YES NO Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML integrated development environment which is part of the SDK for the Qt... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Autocompletion Refactoring Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
84 Like WebStorm Good alternative? YES NO JetBrains WebStorm is a commercial IDE for JavaScript, CSS & HTML built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform. WebStorm provides automatic code completion... Commercial Mac Windows Linux Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
138 Like UltraEdit Good alternative? YES NO 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... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
135 Like Xcode Good alternative? YES NO Xcode is Apple's premiere development environment for Mac OS X. In addition to being packaged on the DVD with every copy of Mac OS X, the latest Xcode developer... Free Mac No features added Add a feature
59 Like KDevelop Good alternative? YES NO KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Windows (beta) and macOS (experimental). It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature
32 Like Xamarin Studio Alternative? YES NO Type intelligently World-class code completion unlocks the iOS, Android, and OS X APIs. Quickly look up methods and types, and discover API functionality. Find bugs... Freemium Mac Windows Microsoft Visual Studio No features added Add a feature Discontinued Xamarin was bought by Microsoft and is now part of Visual Studio.
