Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio for all platforms with any license

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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
- Free of charge. Support for numerous languages. Tons of packages for adding features like running scripts. AdrianSoMC • 12 days ago
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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
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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 Dark theme Intellisense Lightweight ... Multiple cursors Bugs C# Scripting Code completion Embedded debugger Git integration GIT support MarkDown support Mercurial support Syntax Highlighting Version and Source control Add a feature
- Still powerful tool with so much smaller size. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
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NetBeans Good alternative? YES NO

A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and...
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

Java IDE Built-in Terminal Automatic Indentation Code completion Support for FTP GIT support ... Ide integration Source code history Syntax Highlighting Page refresh Add a feature
- It's for MS-Windows, MacOSX and Linux too! You can make projects independent of the OS. Guest • Feb 2017
- Free and Open Source Software. Changing leadership from Oracle to Apache Foundation. brandomettout • Jun 2017
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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
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Android Studio Good alternative? YES NO

Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Similar to Eclipse with the ADT Plugin, Android Studio provides integrated Android...
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Code completion Integrated Android Emulator Visual Programming Add a feature
- Android studio only edits programs for Android (Java language), while Visual studio has a lot of language support built-in Guest • Sep 2016 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees
- Android Studio can only edit/create applcations for Android which is an Mobile Operating System developed by Google but you cannot edit VB.net or C# on Android Studio like you can on Visual Studio. SecurityChecker • Jun 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- For specific Android deployment, the native IDE is the best. Guest • Jul 2017
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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

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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
- For C++ development, QT Creator is a lot less bloated. It is fast and has all the necessary features. There is just too much unnecessary crap in VisualStudio making it slow as hell when running on a slightly older machine and also takes up gigs of disk space. Guest • Jun 2016 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Found everything in Qt Creator for Linux that is in VS for Windows. Guest • Jan 2017
- At first, intelligent search ib QtCreator is much better than the Microsoft's IntelliSens. Hot keys combinations are more simple and more intuitive. It looks for me more simple and intuitively clear at all. Guest • Dec 2016 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
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MonoDevelop Good alternative? YES NO

MonoDevelop enables developers to write desktop and web applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It also makes it easy to port .NET applications created with Visual...
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Xamarin Studio

Code completion Intellisense Nuget Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
- It is specifically for C# like Visual Studio is mostly used for Guest • Nov 2016 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
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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

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Lazarus Good alternative? YES NO

Lazarus is a cross-platform IDE for the Free Pascal compiler. It tries to offer a Delphi-like programming experience through its own 'Lazarus Component Library'...
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD OpenSolaris

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- Open Source done entirely in an independent language very like TurboPascal (Delphi). Guest • Nov 2016
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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

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SharpDevelop Good alternative? YES NO

#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode...
Free Open Source Windows .NET Framework

GUI Designer Nuget Add a feature
- It's very similar to it and size is very low! { Visual Studio - up to 3 GB / sharp Develop - Only Up to 15 MB in size } Guest • Oct 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's small, lightweight, specialized on .NET development (but C++ is available too), supports designing both WinForms and WPF and has NuGet support. Perfect IDE for lightweight C# developing (if you don't need to handle a team of 10000 employees working on 5 big projects) lordunknown • 8 days ago
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CodeLite Good alternative? YES NO

CodeLite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++/PHP and Node.js programming languages. CodeLite is known to work on various OSs including: Windows XP...
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux wxWidgets

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- For me and my enterprise is the best alternative, intellisense very good, dynamic library linkage is very similar to VS, automatically creates a makefile. Very good class wizards! Debug and subversion / GIT and SFTP inegrated in the environment. rgk_rgk_01rgk • Sep 2015
- Excellent development environment, continuously updated, clear vision, active support. Guest • Nov 2015
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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

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Comment by Guest

about Microsoft Visual Studio · May 2017 · 1 Helpful

Supports wide range of languages. Useful extra extensions. Fast build times. Nice debugging options (JIT, Editable on run, etc.). Much customizable options

I wish it didn't install so much extra unnecessary crap. Th ...

Comment by evan

about Microsoft Visual Studio · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful

I wish it didn't install so much extra unnecessary crap. This app definitely suffers from a serious bloat issue. Other than that, it's great to work with.

5/10

Comment by rindeal

about Microsoft Visual Studio and GNU Compiler Collection · Jan 2014 · Helpful Not helpful

Maybe a powerful IDE, but it's too bloated without an option to opt out of the bloat, and obviously it doesn't support GCC and thus you're stuck with MSVC, which means C89 and only a small subset of the features of C++11.

It keeps bugging you just like the paid version, read my co ...

Comment by icarus1633

about Microsoft Visual Studio · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful

It keeps bugging you just like the paid version, read my comment on MSvs and you'll know what i'm talking about.

It is a good one, but still has microsoft damned policies, ...

Comment by icarus1633

about Microsoft Visual Studio · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful

It is a good one, but still has microsoft damned policies, you pay for it but it has not php mysql support, so you have to pay for a third party extension. it has a buddy debugger that really bugs you, yeah thats right, even when you uninstall it it still keeps bugging you. I don't know what it wants from your life but there it is until you change your windows, thats what i ended up with it, i search too many blogs and forums but there was no solutions to solve my buggy thingy.

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Atom Good alternative? YES NO

Eclipse Good alternative? YES NO

Visual Studio Code Good alternative? YES NO

NetBeans Good alternative? YES NO

IntelliJ IDEA Good alternative? YES NO

Android Studio Good alternative? YES NO

Code::Blocks Good alternative? YES NO

Qt Creator Good alternative? YES NO

MonoDevelop Good alternative? YES NO

Komodo Edit Good alternative? YES NO

Lazarus Good alternative? YES NO

WebStorm Good alternative? YES NO

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SharpDevelop Good alternative? YES NO

CodeLite Good alternative? YES NO

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Microsoft Visual Studio Comments

I wish it didn't install so much extra unnecessary crap. Th ...

5/10

It keeps bugging you just like the paid version, read my co ...

It is a good one, but still has microsoft damned policies, ...