VS Code Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Visual Studio Code for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is VSCodium, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Visual Studio Code and loads of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Visual Studio Code are Sublime Text, Vim, Kate and Zed Editor.

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  1. Phoenix Code icon
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    Phoenix Code is a text editor designed to make coding as intuitive and fun as playing a video game - specially crafted for web developers, designers, and students.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. RustRover icon
     5 likes

    Enjoy full support when running your code inside the Rust IDE, be it for testing purposes, debugging, benchmarking, profiling, or targeting different platforms.

    67 RustRover alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  3. GoLand icon
     9 likes

    A Clever IDE to Go.

    13 GoLand alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. DevPod icon
     7 likes

    DevPod is infrastructure-independent and client-only, which makes it incredibly easy to get started with. Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated. Works with any infra, any programming language, any IDE, etc.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Fresh editor icon
     4 likes

    High-performance terminal text editor developed in Rust, offering fast startup, low latency, extensibility, customizable keybindings, menu-driven native UI, robust mouse support, powerful command palette, cross-platform support, and syntax highlighting.

    51 Fresh editor alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Textadept icon
     39 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Spacemacs icon
     27 likes

    Spacemacs is an beautiful Emacs distribution designed for both GNU Emacs and Vim users.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    It is by far more extendable than Visual Studio Code, and combines the best of EMACS and VIM. The only downside is that it loads only a little faster than VS Code, instead of much faster like EMACS.

    • Spacemacs is Free and Open SourceVisual Studio Code is Free and Proprietary
  8. Lime Text icon
     32 likes

    Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge.

    62 Lime Text alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. BBEdit icon
     48 likes

    BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.

    118 BBEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
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