Visual Studio Code

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.

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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.

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Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Javascript MarkDown support Lightweight Syntax Highlighting Mercurial support Version and Source control Dark theme Plugin support Autocompletion Bugs GIT support Code completion Intellisense Multiple cursors C# Scripting Embedded debugger Built in Terminal Git integration

The Best 144 Visual Studio Code Alternatives

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Peppermint

Peppermint is a tweakable Swiss Army knife for Coding on your Mac.

Commercial Mac OS X

Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Code completion
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Neovim

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. Split the work between multiple developers.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD
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Intype

Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins.

Commercial Windows
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Lime Text

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. we hope you are up to it.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Go (Programming Language)

Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting
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MacVim

MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: * bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?Z, ?V, ?A, ?G, etc.

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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SynWrite

SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

Free Open Source Windows Total Commander

Portable Syntax Highlighting
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RJ TextEd

RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding.

Free Windows

Portable Syntax Highlighting
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EditPlus

EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

Commercial Windows

Integrated Web Browser Tabbed interface Support for FTP Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Support for regular expressions Shell integration Search and replace
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Textadept

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Syntax Highlighting Command line interface
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Caret

professional text editing for chrome and chrome os. caret is a graphical text editor modeled on http://alternativein .

Free Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Syntax Highlighting Code completion
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Kod

Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod Goals and features Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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Editra

Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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HTML-Kit

HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant web pages.

Commercial Windows
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Mousepad

A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce

Tabbed interface Lightweight Drag n drop
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slap

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Node.JS

Portable Syntax Highlighting Command line interface
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CotEditor

Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

Free Open Source Mac OS X

File Versioning Colored Text macOS like
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NoteTab

NoteTab is packed with time-saving productivity tools that no other text or HTML editor has.

Freemium Windows
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GNOME Builder

Builder is an IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of the platform to more developers than ever before. The Builder project started out of a class teaching people to program for the GNOME platform.

Free Open Source Linux

Collaborative writing MarkDown support Autocompletion Automatic Indentation Built in Terminal Split screen view Vim key mapping
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Scratch

Scratch is the text editor that works for you. It auto-saves your files, meaning they're always up-to-date. Plus it remembers your tabs so you never lose your spot, even in between sessions. Make it yours.

Free Open Source Linux

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Tabbed interface Lightweight Scripting Syntax Highlighting
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JOE

JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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The Best Visual Studio Code alternatives for Customizable, from Extensible by Plugins/Extensions to a Support for Javascript.
Alternatives in Visual Studio Code for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Android, BSD, Go (Programming Language), Total Commander, Chrome OS, Web, Chrome, Xfce, Node.JS. This list contains a total of 144 applications similar to Visual Studio Code.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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The Best 144 Visual Studio Code Alternatives

Peppermint

Neovim

Intype

Lime Text

MacVim

SynWrite

RJ TextEd

EditPlus

Textadept

Caret

Kod

Editra

HTML-Kit

Mousepad

slap

CotEditor

NoteTab

GNOME Builder

Scratch

JOE

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