3974 Like Notepad++ Good alternative? YES NO Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Block edit Code formatting Color coding Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Tabbed interface Add a feature I have been using it in windows and have a lot of good experience in editing, counting,regex etc Guest • Feb 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
757 Like Atom Good alternative? YES NO A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable GIT support Package Control Support for Themes Community based ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions GitHub integration Gitlab integration Integrated Development Environment Interior Design Minimap Modular System Support for Multiple programming languages Distraction-free UI Plugin API Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Similar interface and functionality of a code editor, but Atom uses a lot of resources being that it is written in JavaScript. Guest • Feb 2016 • 14 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Atom is very similar in feel and functionality to Sublime Text, but much easier to extend. Even the source code of the editor itself is a breeze to read. Guest • Oct 2016 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It seems that Atom is better supported by developers and community. It receives updates faster. WestFlame • Dec 2016 • 5 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Being both features packed and stylistic, Atom provides many aspects to make your coding experience more enjoyable. Guest • Aug 2017 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 Open source, lots of out of the box features and also extensions. Guest • Oct 2016 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Visual Studio Code is a delight to use. It's a free editor that includes syntax highlighting for many text formats and programming languages. It has a rich set of plugins. Bug fixes and new features are added at least once a month. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Despite its "relatively" slow startup time, Code is a great jack of all trades tool, that is not only clean and practical but also open source. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree -Free -Very good performance -Good to a lot of things Guest • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Superb functionality out of the box, with great git integration and easy learning curve. Free!! samajoseph • May 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree This is my favorite code editor. It is open source and portable, you can get a portable version that will fit onto a flash drive if you want. It is just as configurable as Sublime Text and has a large community producing great plugins. it has GIT support built in and excellent support for Javascript, HTML, CSS, and Python, and others of course. It has an integrated debugging system. kholdstayr • Jul 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
979 Like Vim Good alternative? YES NO Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Keyboard focused Modal editor Spell checking ... Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature
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 Live preview is built directly into the program. No additional setup. Plugin manager enables Emmets and other plugins to be installed completely GUI. Guest • May 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
596 Like gedit Good alternative? YES NO Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD GNOME OpenSolaris Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
423 Like Geany Good alternative? YES NO Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Xfce Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature For users who come from a Linux environment this is a perfect editor to keep using on MacOS X LucasVieites • Nov 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree its support many programming language and so easy to compile,build,and run..! Guest • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
265 Like GNU Emacs Good alternative? YES NO GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting ... Terminal-based Add a feature
161 Like Kate Good alternative? YES NO Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface. ... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE Code formatting Support for regular expressions Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface 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 PHP Storm is a full pledge IDE not comparable to Sublime Text editor spthaolt • Jul 2016 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees 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
101 Like PyCharm Community Edition Alternative? YES NO Python IDE with refactoring, code completion, on-the-fly code analysis, graphical debugger, and coding productivity orientation. It can work with Git, Mercurial, CVS... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD FreeBSD Refactoring 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.
275 Like Notepad2 Good alternative? YES NO Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
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
