Free Microsoft Visual Studio Alternatives

The best free alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio is Visual Studio Code. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio are Eclipse, VSCodium, MonoDevelop and Apache NetBeans.

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Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as web sites, web applications and web services.

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Microsoft Visual Studio alternatives page was last updated Aug 30, 2023
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    Padre

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    Padre is a Perl IDE, an Integrated Development environment, or in other words a text editor that is simple to use for new Perl programmers but also supports large multi-lingual and multi-technology projects.

    24 Padre alternatives
    Padre running on Windows 7

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Padre running on Ubuntu
    Padre running on OS X Leopard
    Discontinued

    Development seems to have been stopped. Last version for Windows is from 2012, last version for Ubuntu is for Ubuntu 10.10 and is not available in recent repositories.The web site was last updated in 2016.http://padre.perlide.org/download.html

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    EiffelStudio

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    EiffelStudio is a development environment for the Eiffel programming language developed and distributed by Eiffel Software.

    7 EiffelStudio alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    EiffelStudio Features

    1.  Embedded debugger
    2.  Compiled Language
    3.  Entity Relationship Diagrams
    4.  Static Code Analysis
    5.  Tabbed browsing
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    Easy code

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    Easy Code is the visual assembly programming environment made to build 32-bit Windows applications. The Easy Code interface, looking like Visual Basic, allows you to program Windows assembler applications (executable files, dynamic and static libreries, COFF object files...

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    WideStudio

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    WideStudio is an open source, Integrated Development Environment for desktop applications purely made in Japan. This enables you to develop GUI applications that can run on Windows95/98/Me/NT/2000/Xp, WindowsCE, Linux, FreeBSD, SOLARIS, MacOSX(w/X11), BTRON, T-Engine...

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    In Linux

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    WideStudio Features

    1.  C++
    2.  Rad
    3.  Multi Platform
    In Windows
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer updated. Last version, v3.98-7, released in November 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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    MIDletPascal

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    MIDletPascal is an Pascal compiler and IDE specifically designed to create software for mobiles. It generates Java bytecode that runs on any Java ME device. In September 2009, Niksa Orlic, who wrote MIDlet pascal, transmitted the source code to the Russian Boolean.

    20 MIDletPascal alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Korduene

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    Korduene is a visual programming IDE, that lets you create applications without writing code, or having to know any programming languages, or any previous coding experience.

    13 Korduene alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows

    Korduene Features

    1.  No Coding Required
    2.  Visual Programming
    3.  Rad
    Discontinued

    It seems to be no longer updated or supported, however it is still available for download on the website.

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    scriptcs

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    scriptcs makes it easy to write and execute C# with a simple text editor.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows

    scriptcs Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  C-sharp
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