Lite XL is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.
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60 Lite XL alternatives
163 TextMate alternativesTextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
Comments about TextMate as an Alternative to Sublime Text
Fast, lightweight, feels native on OS X and has easy to change themes. Fonts are good and it doesn't have fancy features which means you can't accidentally activate fancy features.
Basic text editor that's good for everything and is the only thing anyone needs. It's TextEdit but with nice colors and syntax highlighting!
- TextMate is Free and Open Source
196 CudaText alternativesCudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.
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Comments about CudaText as an Alternative to Sublime Text
CudaText is one of the few alternatives that's close to Sublime Text in speed while also covering the same breadth of core features like built-in minimap, command-palette and extensibility. The key difference is probably just that CudaText doesn't look as refined.
It is fast, like Sublime, low on resources
- CudaText is Free and Open Source
- CudaText is Privacy focused
55 WebStorm alternativesJetBrains WebStorm is a commercial IDE for JavaScript, CSS & HTML built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform.
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Comments about WebStorm as an Alternative to Sublime Text
dynomite567This is an IDE. Sublime is a text editor, not an IDE.
WebStorm is an IDE for JavaScript with the best Intellisense, refactoring support, plug-and-play, no need to install dozens of third party plugins to get it functional.
- WebStorm is Free Personal and Proprietary
213 Bluefish Editor alternativesBluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
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122 Aptana Studio alternativesAptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...
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38 Trae alternativesTrae is an adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster.
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211 UltraEdit alternativesUltraEdit 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).
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57 Athas alternativesLightweight, open-source code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux featuring Vim keybindings, built-in Git support, agentic AI editing with multiple models, syntax highlighting, LSP for intelligent completion, fast performance, and efficient workflows.
52 Xcode alternativesXcode 14 includes everything you need to develop, test, and distribute apps across all Apple platforms. Leverage the simplicity and power of Swift and SwiftUI with a new multiplatform app experience, code faster with enhanced editor features, and start testing and deploying from...
Comments about Xcode as an Alternative to Sublime Text
Xcode is a monster that is heavy on resources, is a full blown IDE/
Sublime Text is a simple general purpose programming editor, Xcode is a full featured IDE built specifically for iOS development.
- Xcode is Free and Proprietary
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Really good code editor for macOS. It's simple and lightweight, and you can extend it with theme and extensions.