Positron is described as 'A free, next-generation data science IDE built by Posit PBC. An extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data. A familiar environment for reproducible authoring and publishing' and is a IDE in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Positron for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Positron alternative is Microsoft Visual Studio. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Microsoft Visual Studio or Jupyter. Other great apps like Positron are RStudio, Spyder, PSPP and JASP.