770 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 Support for Themes GIT support Package Control Autocompletion ... Code completion 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 • Sep 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
986 Like 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
289 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 Autocompletion Bugs C# Scripting 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 Disagree Agree
668 Like 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 Disagree Agree Free and Open Source Software. Changing leadership from Oracle to Apache Foundation. brandomettout • Jun 2017 Disagree Agree
276 Like 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 WYSIWYG Support Add a feature
153 Like 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 Disagree Agree 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 Disagree Agree For specific Android deployment, the native IDE is the best. Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree Agree
206 Like 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 Learn with Flashcards Leadfeeder integration Add a feature
54 Like 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 Disagree Agree Found everything in Qt Creator for Linux that is in VS for Windows. Guest • Jan 2017 Disagree Agree 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 Disagree Agree
105 Like 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 Disagree Agree I've used MonoDevelop extensively for C# work in Linux. It can work with Visual Studio projects, and much of the shortcut key mappings match Visual Studio. Support for WinForms is available, but there is no viable GUI layout tool/functionality available. A pity that there's no XAML/WPF support under Linux.... Guest • 23 hours ago Disagree Agree
200 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
98 Like 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 Object-oriented Language Add a feature Open Source done entirely in an independent language very like TurboPascal (Delphi). Guest • Nov 2016 Disagree Agree
67 Like 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 Disagree Agree 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 • Sep 2017 Disagree Agree
51 Like 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 No features added Add a feature 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 Disagree Agree Excellent development environment, continuously updated, clear vision, active support. Guest • Nov 2015 Disagree Agree
60 Like 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 Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature
32 Like Xamarin Studio Alternative? YES NO Type intelligently World-class code completion unlocks the iOS, Android, and OS X APIs. Quickly look up methods and types, and discover API functionality. Find bugs... Freemium Mac Windows Microsoft Visual Studio No features added Add a feature Discontinued Xamarin was bought by Microsoft and is now part of Visual Studio.
