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score 177 · Answer 1

Postman

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Free

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Resource hog

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Flexible and powerful

Can easily add/remove parameters, headers, tests and more. Displays all the info you would want in a partitioned way so you can track exactly what you want. Able to save request and run them in bulk for testing real-user scenarios very efficiently. See More

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Proprietary, closed source software

Not free and open source. See More

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Clear interface

The interface of the program is clean and intuitive. Almost all features are accessible through a single click. See More

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Version 8.x killed Postman - some problem related to "Teams"

Postman is forcing everybody to move their data to the cloud. See More

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Two versions of apps are available

Packaged app and an in-browser app are available for Google Chrome. See More

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Bloated & cluttered

Bloated and cluttered, it's quicker to just have a js/ts template available to run some requests. See More

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Excellent user feedback loop

Postman is very responsive to users and listens to user feedback. See More

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Insecure off-premise storage

To properly use this with full development and testing it stores API details, including security, in an off-site storage managed by Postman. It also stores details about employees, teams they are members of, and projects they are working on. This makes it inappropriate for any organization that is required to exercise a high level of security hygiene when developing software products. This issue may be compounded by the lack of details concerning the geolocation of data storage. See More

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Dark theme

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Limited free APIs

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Doesn't work right with localized queries

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Does not support Proxy authentication

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Dark Theme:Yes

Hollywood formatting:Yes

SSL certificate verification:Yes

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score 39 · Answer 2

Paw

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Multiple environments

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Restricted and unstable Web-View

Javascript Events can cause crash or will not be recognized. See More

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Dynamic values

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Proprietary, closed source software

Not free and open source. See More

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Many extensions

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Option to create a new API

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Beautiful native app

It is much more convenient than using a chrome extension. It uses minimal resources on my Mac. See More

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Quickly filter json response

Paw supports filtering using key path, JSONPath and jq. See More

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Regular updates

The app is regularly updated with corrections and new features. See More

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score 53 · Answer 3

BBEdit

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Stable development, been around for decades

BBEdit is commercial software, the paid counterpart to their free application Textwrangler. Though BBEdit comes off as pricey, this allows for stable and consistent updates from the developers. BBEdit has been around since 1992. See More

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Featureless

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Can open very large files

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Expensive

It's US$49.99 a single user license. See More

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Just about every feature is already built in

No searching for plug-ins that may or may not work. See More

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Great customer support

The developer is very responsive to bug reports and feature suggestions. See More

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Native application

Follows platform standards. See More

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Built-in FTP/SFTP browser

BBEdit can open files directly from, and save them to, any available FTP server. It can also open and save files directly via SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol). See More

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Great JAMStack environment

You can build the static site of your dreams without needing any external assistants. Although it does not process LESS, SASS, or SCSS files, BBEdit's includes are very powerful. See More

Specs

Platforms:Mac

License:Proprietary

Collaborative editing:No

Supported remote file editing protocols:Yes

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score 7 · Answer 4

Proxyman - A modern and intuitive HTTP Debugging Proxy app

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Native and easy to use

It's exclusively built for macOS app and strictly follow the macOS Design Human Guideline. So it's super easy to use. See More

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It's just a beta

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Easy for collaboration between dev and QA

You can use Export to share the request with other developers, then they can use Edit and Repeat to customize that request. See More

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Distraction-free

You can actually pin the requests that you want to focus. See More

Specs

Platforms:macOS

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score 20 · Answer 5

CodeRunner

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Working with very very large projects

Code runner is fantastic for shorter projects, although it can handle very large projects. It stops code completion when the program gets to be several thousands of lines long. See More

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Fast and efficient

You can have multiple tabs open with multiple languages in at the same time and Code Runner still performs excellently. Searching through code is always instant and executing code is fast. See More

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Supports many different languages

Code Runner comes preinstalled with over 20 languages built in, and it's super easy to run simple programs. See More

Specs

Platforms:Mac

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score 110 · Answer 6

Mocha

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Supports different assertion libraries

Mocha runs independently from the assertion library, so you can choose which assertion format works best for you. Mocha most often is run in combination with assertion library Chai. See More

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Can be intimidating for beginners

While some testing frameworks are complete out of the box, Mocha requires developers to select and set up assertion libraries and mocking utilities. For someone who is just starting to learn how to build tests this can be scary as they will also have to choose which libraries to use and learn them too. See More

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Write tests with Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Allows developers to choose their development process. Not only TDD but also BDD. See More

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No atomic tests

Tests cannot be ran in random order. See More

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Runs in Node.js and the browser

Mocha has a browser build as well as a node command line program so you can test in client and server side environments. See More

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Makes Asynchronous testing extremely easy

No need to write tricky statements for Async testing. Mocha gives you a done callback. Place this done parameter in your callback function, that'll let Mocha know that you've written an asynchronous function. See More

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Integrates really well with NodeJS

The Mocha test framework itself runs on NodeJS, hence it makes everything related to it extremely simple. With Mocha's simple syntax and speed, testing your node.js app just got a whole lot easier. See More

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Custom full color test reporters

Mocha has multiple test reporters built in and you can create your own as well. The test reporters have full color and makes it easy to see if your tests fail or not. See More

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Easy to add support for Generators

Aside from the numerous benefits with generators in your application, You can now also integrate generators into your test suite. By using mocha, all you have to do is enable support for generators. See More

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score 88 · Answer 7

MacDown

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Free and open source

MacDown is a free and open source editor influenced by Mou. It's released under the MIT license. See More

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Not very versatile

MacDown is not very powerful or versatile. It's not customizable or extendable. This is what makes it so simple, but it's not for people who want more from their tools. See More

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Real-time split-screen preview

MacDown's main view is split into two panels. The user types on the left and the Markdown is rendered on the fly in the right panel. This helps users to better understand the way they are formatting their document. See More

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Frequently fails to update the display and/or flat out hangs

Must often restart MacDown. See More

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Markdown previews can be customized with CSS

You can use a CSS file to customize the rendered output and the file preview you are working on will display the rendered Markdown with the custom CSS styling on top. See More

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The Markdown preview is rather heavy on the CPU

The Markdown preview needs a lot of resources to keep rendering on-the-fly after each keystroke. A single keystroke in the editor panel may trigger up to 5 seconds of max-CPU usage. See More

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Supports syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks

MacDown has syntax highlighting support for various languages when writing code in fenced code blocks. See More

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Good auto-completion

MacDown has a good built-in auto-completion engine for Markdown symbols. See More

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Support for GFM

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Ideal for day-to-day programmers' work and MarkDown novices alike

Using MacDown for the notorious README.md use case gets you going without reading any manual or requiring any configuration values. Think of it as a sort of TextEdit for MarkDown files. Thus its shortcomings - neither powerful nor versatile - turn out to be a PRO for novices trying to jump on the MarkDown bandwagon. Open its help and you'll immediately find yourself editing the MacDown's MarkDown help file, a MarkDown primer with some MacDown menus and configuration added. See More

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Linking between pages

Unlike a few other editors, MacDown lets you link between markdown pages. See More

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Tool bar with most used markdown shortcuts

This is especially useful for Markdown novices See More

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score 2 · Answer 8

GraphQL Editor

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Good education resource

It is good to learn GraphQL with this editor See More

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Generation of frontend lib

You can generate frontend library in TypeScript See More

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Node graph for graphql

Visible for non programming members of team also See More

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score 61 · Answer 9

pkgsrc

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pkgin is an apt-like tools for installing binaries from pkgsrc

pkgin aims to be a tool similar to apt/yum for managing pkgsrc binaries by relying on pkg_summary for installing, removing and upgrading packages and dependencies, using a remote repo. See More

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Not so broadly used on MacOS as compared with MacPorts

You do not hear about Pkgsrc as openly as you hear the words "HomeBrew" or "MacPorts". See More

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Adapted for use on over a dozen different operating systems

Has been adopted to be used on several Unix-like operating systems and Windows. It's also the default package manager of DragonflyBSD and of the (now discounted) Bluewall Linux distro. See More

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Outdated packages

Some packages are outdated. See More

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Installs and works in the same way as MacPorts

Installs its own dependencies which means that it is very secure. Cannot install anything unless you use the "sudo" command which is in keeping with the Unix philosophy. See More

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Can't install some packages

Even building well known packages (except MacPorts) from source using the ports can fail. See More

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Both binary packages and source build possible

Fast software installation is possible by using binary packages. It's also easy to build from source which allows for different compile-time options (like different UI backends) as well as gaining access to pre-release versions of software in certain cases. See More

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Relatively complicated setup and installation

Installing and setting pkgsrc up is a bit more complicated than in other package managers where it often consists in running a single script. See More

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Offering tooling for backporting fixes

Backporting fixes can be done by cherry-picking updates from a newer branch (pkgsrc is released every 3 months) and creating a package. Sometimes bugs need to be fixed for production and there is neither a fix in newer pkgsrc nor the softwares upstream. So pkgsrc has tools like pkgdiff, mkpatches, etc. that help with developing patches and building binary packages from that. A bit of documentation about that process can be found here. See More

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Does not need Xcode command line tools or Xcode.

This means that you can install it fresh on a new installation of MacOS and have all your favorite apps installed right from the start. See More

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Works easily with Ansible

Can be used from within Ansible to install packages on macOS. See More

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Easy installation if you use 3rd party scripts

This one works brilliantly. See More

Specs

packages:18560

requires sudo:yes

Supports Apple Silicon:Yes

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score 626 · Answer 10

iTerm2

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Complete out of the box

Unlike most terminal emulators, iTerm2 comes with a pretty complete set of features. It has built-in search, autocompletion, tabbed navigation, Growl support and even a built-in clipboard manager for various API keys and such. See More

Top Con

Keycodes are not passed through following Linux standards

If you come from a Linux terminal emulator (Gnome Terminal, Konsole...) and you rely on key-combos that are widely supported in those, porting the same functionality to iTerm is possible but will require a lot of research and configuration on your part, so account for a long painful adoption period. See More

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Fine tuning for fonts

It's possible to choose a font and adjust vertical and horizontal spacing. See More

Top Con

Not quite as fast as Alacritty or Kitty

Comparing these 3 terminals on the same machine/config, iTerm stands out as the slowest of the bunch. The difference may not be noticeable to all users. See More

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Extremely customizable

Other than being able to customize the various shortcuts, iTerm2 also lets you customize the colorscheme, font, transparency, etc. See More

Top Con

Way too many menu items and settings

Finding the right one is like searching for a needle in a haystack. See More

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Active maintainers

Issues resolved fast by quality contributors. See More

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Doesn't support Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Some people still use Snow Leopard or other 32-bit systems. See More

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Completely free and open source

iTerm2 is completely free and open source. It's released under the GPLv2 license. See More

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Doesn't support RTL

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Works well with tmux

The great mouse and clipboard support that are built-in go really well with tmux. See More

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Any key can be mapped to any function

Using the Preferences Menu you can set up hotkeys to map virtually any action you can think of to a single key or a combination of them. This is extremely helpful as it allows you to use shortcuts to edit commands you are typing in the terminal and while most terminal emulators have shortcuts for this sort of thing, few of them let you define your own. See More

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Can immediately open files inside a text editor

You can Ctrl+Click on a file path to open said file in a text editor. See More

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Autocomplete is built-in

iTerm has autocomplete features built in. It remembers your past commands and when you are writing something on the terminal, simply pressing Control-; it will show you a drop down menu of suggestions from which to choose. See More

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Supports mouse actions

Has support for mouse actions like clicking, dragging, selecting, etc. See More

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Works well with powerline fonts

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Can be configured as a drop-down terminal

Can be configured to work as a drop down terminal like Quake. See More

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Split panes

Easy to split panes to either horizontal or vertical sections. Makes it easy to observe multiple console windows. See More

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Intuitive

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Cmd+D to split plane vertically

Very handy to use multi-tab. See More

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Works perfect with Oh My Zsh

It's a perfect base to add Oh My Zsh on top of it and enjoy a lot of themes and a really pleasant look and feel. See More

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You only need to type in commands once

iTerm2 can store up to 4M of history of commands you already used. This, coupled with the built-in search features makes it possible to type a command only once and then search for it through the history for subsequent uses. See More

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Cmd+Shift+I to Input all

Wanna SSH your server from multiple tabs, here you go. See More

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Beautiful, minimalistic and elegant UI

It's super-clean and during use it gets completely out of the way, it's a beautiful canvas for your terminal work, a pure joy that never gets old. See More

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GPU-rendered, blazing fast and super smooth

Many people say they use Kitty or Alacritty because they are GPU-rendered. That was true a long time ago. But iTerm2 has been GPU rendered for years now. It's so fast and smooth that you soon forget you are in a terminal. See More

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Supported by many applications as a terminal app selection

If an application has terminal integration, there is high probability it allows iTerm2 to be selected. See More

Specs

Supported platforms:macOS

Ligature support:Yes

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score 609 · Answer 11

Homebrew

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Quick access to a large repository of open source software

Homebrew makes it easy for people to quickly install any open source software (that is contained within the apps repositories) for Mac. See More

Top Con

May cause issues when trying to create symlinks or installing in places where SIP has changed permissions

One of the things to like about Homebrew is that it refuses to run things under sudo most of the time. This is a great policy, but it causes issues when you want to create symlinks or install in places that SIP has changed permissions on. (Alternatively, you could install Homebrew somewhere other than /usr/local, but that might break various packages that depend on having stuff in and relative to /usr/local/.) See More

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Easy to setup and use

Once installed, you control Homebrew using the brew command. You can find packages using brew search, install them using brew install and remove them using brew uninstall. See More

Top Con

Command line tools for XCode required

Once xcode is installed you can install Homebrew, including new(er)/different versions of most of the build stuff that xcode-select installed, like a newer gcc, newer git, etc. See More

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Open Source

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Relies on outdated system libs

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Unintrusive

Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local. Homebrew won’t install files outside its prefix, and you can place a Homebrew installation wherever you like. See More

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Does not require using sudo

One of the things to like about Homebrew is that it refuses to run things under sudo most of the time. This is a great policy, but it causes issues when you want to create symlinks or install in places that SIP has changed permissions on. See More

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Less maintenance than Macports

Macports seems to be able to get into a bad state where new packages are unable to be installed, or installed software was unable to be updated. This simply hasn't happened with Homebrew. In addition to not having to deal with corruption problems, Homebrew installs packages in userland. Not requiring root to install software is a big win. See More

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Homebrew tries very hard to use existing tools and libraries

Homebrew’s recipes try very hard to use the existing tools and libraries in OS/X, so they tend to build much faster and require fewer dependent libraries. See More

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Builds quickly and requires few dependencies

Homebrew as much as possible uses already existing libraries and tools to install software thus making builds quick and requiring few dependencies. See More

Specs

packages:4635

requires sudo:no

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score 587 · Answer 12

Spacemacs

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Combines the best parts of Vi and Emacs

Spacemacs combines the Emacs platform (with the full power of the Emacs plugin ecosystem) and the Vi keybindings (via EViL), all in the same box. See More

Top Con

Can be quite glitchy at times

Spacemacs combines many packages from many different authors that were never designed to work together. Sometimes they interact in unexpected ways, and things randomly break as one package interferes with another's features. This combined with frequent package updates and necessary customization by selection of layers and packages, can make these glitches hard to reproduce. It takes a lot of emacs know-how to fix these problems. Fortunately there is a very active community willing to help with these problems, but it might take a while. See More

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Simple but powerful configuration architecture

At the heart of Spacemacs, the configuration layers group packages configuration into semantic units that can be toggled on and off. The architecture is simple but powerful, allowing the user to easily manage configuration dependencies between hundreds of packages. See More

Top Con

Complex learning difficulty

You must be familiar with either Vim or Emacs. In addition, you should be familiar with the unique features of Spacemacs. The Layer concept of replacing Emacs settings is still difficult and abstract compared to modern editors. See More

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Community-driven configuration

Spacemacs is the biggest community-driven Emacs starter-kit. See More

Top Con

Functionality layers of complicated configuration

To configure Spacemacs, settings for Emacs/Evil/Spacemacs may need editing. It's not always clear which need to be changed or how to change settings globally: sometimes hooks are needed, other times Spacemacs provides options. See More

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Can be controlled fully with the keyboard

There's no need to reach for the mouse again since Spacemacs can be fully controlled with keyboard. See More

Top Con

High CPU and unresponsive at times

There are occasions when Spacemacs would suddenly consume a LOT of CPU and then other times would become completely unresponsive. This instability took place only 6 months or so ago. Restarting Spacemacs can fix it for a while but perhaps this issue is already fixed in newer versions. See More

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Gradual learning curve

Evil package is a first class citizen and Spacemacs embraces it from day one. Evil package allows Vim users to be productive very quickly while still allowing regular Emacs users to use Spacemacs. See More

Top Con

Relative low startup time

Although configuration is heavily loaded, the starting time of Spacemacs is usually between two and five seconds. Emacs can be run as a daemon though which reduces the client's startup time to a few milliseconds. Still not as bad as other editors though, especially Electron based ones like VSCode or Atom. See More

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Cross-platform

Emacs runs on Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. See More

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Above average documentation quality

Documentation is mandatory for each new configuration layer and can be accessed directly within the editor in Org format. See More

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Great support from the community

The community surrounding Spacemacs is very active and there is a welcoming gitter chat for users to ask questions. See More

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Great note-taking and agenda mode built-in

Allows for great organization applications that can be saved in future-proof format, plain text, can be integrated with org, LaTeX, markdown, HTML, Literate Programming and be committed to source control. See More

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Offers a number of practical features

Spacemacs has some great features for taking notes, tracking to-do lists, and tracking time. See More

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Completely configured out of the box

Stuff like version control, file management, good default theme are all configured out of the box. See More

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Mnemonic and consistent keybindings

Space-lead key bindings are organized in mnemonic namespaces. For instance, buffer actions are under SPC b, file actions are under SPC f, project actions are under SPC p, search actions are under SPC s, and so on. Keybindings are consistent across the whole distribution thanks to a set of conventions. See More

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Lowers the risk of RSI by using the spacebar as leader

Spacemacs got its name from the fact that it is uses the space bar as a default leader key. The key was chosen because it is easy to press and to hopefully lower the risk of RSI. See More

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Fast-paced development

New functionalities and fixes are added to Spacemacs every day, while release cycles are short. See More

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Remote file editing

Files can be edited in Spacemacs remotely. See More

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Easily extended with community plugins

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Manage many code bases easily

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LaTeX support

LaTeX allows for auto-completion, syncing, and more. See More

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Works well with Common Lisp

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Can work in terminal mode

Sometimes you only have terminal access, over ssh or something. See More

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Daemon support

Has great daemon support, which can mitigate the issue of slow startup. See More

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Great CFEngine support

Syntax highlighting and org-babel extensions. See More

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Manage R files easily

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Great Clojure support

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Excellent support for Elixir programming language

Elixir layer which uses the Alchemist package is the best way to edit Elixir code out there. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux

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score 103 · Answer 13

Spyder

Top Pro

Powerful autocompletion

Spyder's autocomplete features are made possible by a library called rope which gives Spyder powerful autocompletion. See More

Top Con

Not beautiful

The default theme is not beautiful. And there are not many themes. See More

Top Pro

Free and open-source

Released under the MIT license. See More

Top Con

The documentation is poor when it comes to debugging

Not a lot of information about debugging is available in the documentation. See More

Top Pro

Has cross platform support - Linux, Mac, and even Windows

Spyder (formerly Pydee) has support for all of the major operating platforms - Linux, Mac, and even Windows. See More

Top Con

Consumes a lot of memory

If you're working with large data, especially arrays, another IDE should be considered as spyder uses at least 200-300Mb of memory. See More

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Graph plotting support

Spyder can plot graphs and provide the list of all variables. See More

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Helps you to use documentation

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Intuitive interface

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Enables to write consistent code

Pylint integration enables to check the code for PEP8 style guide and detect errors. See More

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Relatively lightweight

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Has support for Vim bindings via plugin support

Aside from being an open sourced, actively developed IDE, vim key-binding support is also available. If you remember Pydee - this is it, albeit with a new name. See More

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Good GitHub project

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Excellent variable explorer

Dynamic variable explorer with editor and visualizer See More

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Completely Python

Specs

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:No

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score 310 · Answer 14

PyCharm Professional Edition

Top Pro

Version control integration

PyCharm has CVS, Git, Subversion and Mercurial integration. See More

Top Con

Very high memory usage

Memory usage is usually anywhere around 1-2GB and possibly larger with larger projects See More

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Catches run-time information when running the code

PyCharm can leverage run-time information when running your application with the built-in debugger to figure out what types can possibly be passed to which functions, etc. See More

Top Con

Not suitable to edit project's files written in other languages

There is a high variety of support for a lot of languages like markdown etc. Not for Java and so on, but it is a Python IDE. See More

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One of the best autocompletion engines around

PyCharm has two types of autocompletion: structural completion and word expansion. Structural autocompletion makes predictions based on its understanding of Python and JavaScript objects, while the latter tries to predict the word currently being typed based on previously typed words. Word expansion also works in comments and docstrings and it's similar to vim's omnicompletion. Both types of autocompletion work extremely well, have little to no problems and are quite fast even when loading suggestions on the go. See More

Top Con

Some relatively basic functionality requires paid license

JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, SQL requires a paid license. Also, all Python frameworks require a paid license. See More

Top Pro

Great pip support

PyCharm offers great pip integration. When opening a project it automatically checks for a requirements.txt file in the root of the project. If it's found, it checks if all the libraries are available in the interpreter. If one or more libraries are missing, it issues a warning and asks whether you want to install any missing libraries. See More

Top Con

Odd Autosave "feature", can't be disabled fully

PyCharm automatically saves your files for you, always, without telling you. You can't disable this. There's a way to indicate if a file has been modified via an indicator in the tab (not enabled by default - why?). If you exit it won't ask you if you want to save the modified file. Totally unintuitive and contrary to all other established workflows. It's ok to try something new, but give users the option to have the "normal" behaviour of any other IDE/editor out there. Can be a deal breaker for those that need to know/have control over when they save their files. (PyCharm offers a history to undo the automatic save, but why force a user to undo something with extra steps that shouldn't have happened in the first place?) See More

Top Pro

Free version available

There's a community edition (with limited features) that's free to use. You can also get a 30-day trial of the Professional edition. See More

Top Con

Not possible to run scripts in a single console

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Excellent integration with debugging tools

All the debugging can be done inside the IDE. Breakpoints in the code can be added using keyboard shortcuts or the mouse. When the code is executed through the debugger a toolbar pops up with all the relevant context needed for the debugging process. The whole process is smooth and painless and you don't even have to switch windows to do the debugging. See More

Top Con

It cannot reindex on the fly packages installed from git source

If you've installed a package with the command: pip install -e git+https://pass@github.com/me/package.git@0.0.3#egg=package you have two options available to make PyCharm update/see it: restart PyCharm invalidate caches See More

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Excellent refactoring support

There are many refactoring options including renaming and changing signature across entire projects. It also includes the an ability to preview changes before committing and exclude anything unwanted. See More

Top Con

Asinine licensing scheme

JetBrains licensing, especially if you have multiple products, is a blocker. You just can't have a fixed line-item price (for departmental budgeting) for their licenses. See More

Top Pro

Free student access to Professional Edition

With a valid .edu address students can register to use the Professional edition and enjoy all the perks of the full paid version for free. Though it should be mentioned that the with the free student acess you cannot use PyCharm for any commercial purposes, even accepting donations for an open source project. See More

Top Con

Vim mode is limited

Top Pro

Vim mode for people used to Vim commands

IdeaVim supports motion keys, insert mode commands, marks, registers, visual mode commands, vim regexps, key mapping, macros, digraphs, some ex and :set commands. You can find a full comparison in the IdeaVim reference manual. See More

Top Con

Rendering is awful

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Great for navigating large codebases

PyCharm has amazing code navigation implementations. It supports both goto symbol and goto declaration. The former finds classes, variables, functions, etc by name. While the latter is used by moving the cursor on top of a symbol and by using the mouse or a keyboard combination it finds the declaration of that symbol and takes you there. Both of these features are extremely helpful when consulting large code-bases and when trying to understand an API written by someone else. See More

Top Con

Little native desktop integration

If you use Linux with Gnome or KDE, PyCharm does relatively little to integrate into your local desktop environment See More

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Automatically figures out what test to run based on the method the cursor rests at a given time

PyCharm, based on what method or class the cursor rests, can figure out what tests to run and perform them with a keyboard shortcut or two, without breaking up the flow and need to switch to a command line interface. See More

Top Con

Sometimes all autocomplete stuff dies with over 9k Java exceptions with no visible reason

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Built-in Django support

Pycharm has excellent django support, from templating to management commands, it has it all. See More

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Easy to optimize code with built-in profiling tools

If you have a yappi profiler installed on your interpreter, PyCharm starts the profiling session with it by default, otherwise it uses the standard cProfile profiler. See More

Top Pro

Remote debugging over ssh coupled with automatic deployment creates a streamlined workflow

The professional version allows remote debugging over ssh, which together with automatic deployment creates a streamlined workflow. See More

Top Pro

Supports installing third party libraries

No need to go to the command line to download a new package, PyCharm has an easy system to browse, download, and update third party packages. See More

Top Pro

Has a lot of plugins

PyCharm offers a high variety of plugins like Pylin, Mypy etc. covering all the above mentioned. Plus it has a built-in support to detect wrong formatted/named things (inspection). See More

Top Pro

Amazing direct database integration

Pycharm supports SQLlite, PostgresQL, Mysql, etc out of the box and is integrated very nicely with Pycharm. Making database modifications could never have been easier as changing a cell value and committing the changes straight from pycharm. See More

Top Pro

Sophisticated static analysis tools

Specs

Price:$200/years

Cross Platform:Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD

Multi Language Support:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

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MacPorts

Top Pro

Provides a consistent experience across OS X versions

MacPorts eschews Apple-supplied libraries and links sources against its own making sure that the experience is the same regardless of what OS X version is used. See More

Top Con

New Packages and Updates take time

Macports isn't the first choice for developers producing new packages or binaries for macOS. Nor is it the fastest in getting updates. But in general, it usually is one of the most up to date and will be updated eventually. Some would see this as a con in comparison to Homebrew. See More

Top Pro

Generally very up to date

MacPorts generally gets new software soon after it's available. This way users will not have to worry if their software is up to date. See More

Top Con

Bad at limiting dependencies

MacPorts has a habit of pulling very specific versions of dependencies for each package. It downloads different version of already existing dependencies even in cases where the existing dependency version would have worked seamlessly. See More

Top Pro

Nice variants system

MacPorts has a variants system that allows customizing builds with author provided options. See More

Top Con

Downloads unneeded libraries duplicating functionality already provided by Apple's libraries

As MacPorts eschews Apple-supplied libraries and links sources against its own a large duplication of functionality across MacPorts and Apple libraries can be found. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Detailed instructions on the homepage are easy to follow. Official GUI app is also available See More

Top Con

Requires root permissions (sudo) for installation of packages

A really good security feature, but some see it as a con. See More

Top Pro

Has many more packages than its competitors

As of this writing, 20K packages. 3 to 5x more than other current package managers. See More

Top Pro

Requires SUDO to install apps

No need to worry if some rogue app will change your binaries or configuration. See More

Top Pro

Download libraries instead of relying on Apple's caprices

Considering just how often Apple breaks things, any reduplication of of Apple-supplied libraries with the canonical sources is an asset. See More

Top Pro

Fast

Written in Tcl & C, it's generally significantly faster than the competition. Tcl is also quite readable and comparable to Ruby, so it's also friendly to newcomers. See More

Top Pro

MacPorts is a native application: C + TCL

No need to install Ruby, or any other programming language. See More

Top Pro

More packages than competition

Top Pro

Apple Silicon Ready

With Apple moving over to its own silicon, macports has been ready for the move to ARM since 2.6.4 See More

Top Pro

Initially started and developed by Apple employees and supported by Apple itself

Reading the story behind MacPorts, it is the only one that was developed by Apple by an Apple employee. In fact it is the same person that was responsible for creating the FreeBSD port system. See More

Top Pro

Great support for older systems

Top Pro

Most of the available packages work

For example, trying to install Finch using Pkgsrc doesn't work, while installing it using MacPorts works perfectly. Finch isn't even on Homebrew's radar. See More

Specs

requires sudo:yes

Supports Apple Silicon:Yes

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Xcode

Top Pro

Live syntax checking, built-in documentation, code completion

Makes programming quick and painless. See More

Top Pro

Great iOS integration

iOS integration makes it easy to deploy apps. See More

Top Pro

Easy to install

Just head to AppStore and install it for free. See More

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Vim

Top Pro

Lightweight and fast

When compared to modern graphical editors like Atom and Brackets (which have underlying HTML5 engines, browsers, Node, etc.), Vim uses a sliver of the system's memory and it loads instantly, all the while delivering the same features. Vim is also faster than Emacs. See More

Top Con

High effort to customize

A lot of time and effort is put in to make it specific to your needs. See More

Top Pro

Free and open-source software

Vim is open-source, GPL-compatible charityware. See More

Top Con

Poor support for external tooling

Many plugins depend on optional Python and Lua features, which may or may not be included in whatever binaries are available for your system. And without platform-specific hacks, it is difficult for plugins to operate in the background or use external tooling. See More

Top Pro

Works in terminal over SSH

Unlike other editors such as Sublime Text, Vim is a command line editor and hence can be used in remote development environments like Chromebooks via SSH. See More

Top Con

Poor feature discoverability

Though basic features like syntax checking, autocompletion, and file management are all available out of the box or with minimal configuration, this is not obvious to new users, who might get intimidated or assume they need to install complex plugins just so they can have this functionality. Other features new users might expect to find embedded in Vim, such as debugging, instead follow a UNIX-style model where they are called as external programs, the output of which might then be parsed by Vim so it can display results. Users not familiar with this paradigm will likely fault Vim for lacking those features as well. See More

Top Pro

Extremely portable

Vi/vim exists on almost all Unix-like platforms. It's the de-facto Unix editor and is easily installed on Windows. All you need to make it work is a text-based connection, so it works well for remote machines with slow connections, or when you're too lazy to set up a VNC/Remote Desktop connection. See More

Top Con

Difficult learning curve

You'll spend a lot of time learning all the commands and modes supported in Vim. You'll then spend more time tuning settings to your needs. Although once it's tuned to your needs, you can take your .vimrc to any machine you need and have the same experience across all your computers. See More

Top Pro

Keyboard-based, mouse-free interface, and trackpad support

There's no need to reach for the mouse or the Ctrl/Alt buttons again. Everything is a mere key press or two away with almost 200 functions specifically for text editing. Vim does support the mouse, but it's designed so you don't have to use it for greater efficiency. Versions of Vim, like gVim or MacVim, still allow you to use the mouse and familiar platform shortcuts. That can help ease the learning curve and you'll probably find you won't want to (or need to) use the mouse after a while. See More

Top Con

Doesn't play nice with the system cut/paste mechanisms

This can be worked around somewhat if you disable mouse for insert mode. You can then right-click your terminal and use paste like you would anywhere else in a terminal. But it still doesn't feel right when the rest of your system uses Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V, and you have a system clipboard manager, and so forth. See More

Top Pro

Great productivity

Vim's keyset is mainly restricted to the alphanumeric keys and the escape key. This is an enduring relic of its teletype heritage, but has the effect of making my ost of Vim's functionality accessible without frequent awkward finger reaches. See More

Top Con

Difficult to copy, paste, and delete

Top Pro

Usable from a Terminal or with a GUI (GVim, MacVim)

If you happen to be logged into SSH, you can use Vim in a terminal. It can also run with a GUI too. See More

Top Con

Outdated UI

Top Pro

Excellent performance

As it loads the whole file into RAM, replacing all string occurrences in 100 MB+ files is quick and easy. Every other editor has sort of died during that. It is extremely fast even for cold start. Vim is light-weight and very compact. In terminal, it only uses a small amount of memory and anytime you invoke Vim, it's extremely fast. It's immediate, so much so you can't even notice any time lag. See More

Top Con

Requires Brain Mode Switching

When editing in vim, you have you use the vim keys; when editing in every other window on your PC, or in Word or Excel or other application, you need to use the standard system key combinations. Learning the vim combinations can actually make you SLOWER at everything else. See More

Top Pro

Once learned, it's very hard to forget

Vim's somewhat steep learning curve is more than made up for once you've mastered a few basic concepts and learned the tricks that allow you to program faster with fewer cut/paste mistakes. See More

Top Con

Slow when opening files with very long lines

A lot of very long lines can make Vim take up to a minute to open files, where a few other editors take only seconds to load the same file. See More

Top Pro

Can never outgrow it

The fact that very few, if any, people claim to be a "Vim Master" is a testament to the breadth and depth of Vim. There is always something new to learn - a new, perhaps more efficient, way to use it. This prevents Vim from ever feeling stale. It's always fresh. See More

Top Con

No smooth scrolling

Even with the GUI version, the lines jiggle line-by-line. If you are used to smooth scrolling, this is very annoying, especially when working with larger files. See More

Top Pro

Built-in package management

Starting with Vim 8, a package manager has been built into Vim. The package manager helps keep track of installed plugins, their versions and also only loads the needed plugins on startup depending on the file type. See More

Top Con

Consume brain energy for editing that should be used for logic

Text editing in vim is awesome, but it requires thinking about combination of commands. In other editors, you don't have to think about how to delete this part of code. You just think about how to implement a feature, what is a good design for this code. Even after you get used to using vim, it still requires your brain for editing. See More

Top Pro

Macros increase productivity

Many text editors have programmable macros, but since Vim is keyboard-based, your programmed macros are usually far more predictable and easier to understand. See More

Top Con

Foreign keyboards have a hard time on Vim out of the box

A lot of frequently-used keybinds are way harder to access on foreign keyboards because they use different layouts. For example, Germans use the QWERTZ layout, while French use the AZERTY. See More

Top Pro

Tons of plugins/add-ons

This makes Vim the definitive resource for every environment (Ruby/Rails, Python, C, etc.), or simply just provides more information in your view. See More

Top Con

Unintuitive mode switching

Top Pro

By default in Linux

All Linux distributions out there will have Vim built into them, which is highly convenient! See More

Top Con

Extensibility isn't that great

While it has gotten better and some projects are slowly starting to build proper extension support, it still can't and by design never will achieve the extensibility of another editor like emacs. See More

Top Pro

Amazing extensibility

Vimscript provides a rich scripting functionality to build upon the core of Vim. When combined with things like Tim Pope's Pathogen plugin management system, it becomes easy to add support for syntax, debugging, build systems, git, and more. See More

Top Con

Works poorly out of the box with right-to-left

Top Pro

Everything is mnemonic

No need to memorize different key combinations for things like deleting the text inside of a block or deleting the text inside of a pair of quotes. It's just a series of actions, or nouns and verbs, or however you prefer to think about it. If you want to delete, you select "d"; if you want it to happen inside something, you select "i"; and if you want the surrounding double-quotes, just select ". But if you were changing the text, or copying it, or anything else, you'd still use the same "i" and ". This makes it very easy to remember a large number of different extremely useful commands, without the effort it takes to remember all of the Emacs "magic incantations", for example. See More

Top Pro

Vimtutor

Vimtutor is an excellent interactive tutorial for people with no prior experience of Vim. It takes about 30 minutes to complete. See More

Top Pro

Has multiple distinct editing modes

Interaction with Vim is centered around several "modes", where purpose and keybindings differ in each. Insert mode is for entering text. This mode most resembles traditional text entry in most editors. Normal mode (the default) is entered by hitting ESC and converts all keybindings to center around movement within the file, search, pane selection, etc. Command mode is entered by hitting ":" in Normal mode and allows you to execute Vim commands and scripts similar in fashion to a shell. Visual mode is for selecting lines, blocks, and characters of code. Those are the major modes, and several more exist depending on what one defines as a "mode" in Vim. See More

Top Pro

Has been supported for a long time

And will be supported for many years to come. See More

Top Pro

Productivity enhancing modal paradigm

As with all vi-like editors, Vim provides a modal paradigm for text editing and processing that provides a rich syntax and semantic model for composing succinct, powerful commands. While this requires some initial investment in learning how it works in order to take full advantage of its capabilities, it rewards the user well in the long run. This modal interface paradigm also lends itself surprisingly well to many other types of applications that can be controlled by vi-like keybindings, such as browsers, image viewers, media players, network clients (for email and other communication media), and window managers. Even shells (including zsh, tcsh, mksh, and bash, among others) come with vi-like keybinding features that can greatly enhance user comfort and efficiency when the user is familiar with the vi modal editing paradigm. See More

Top Pro

Useful undo features

Vim does not only offer unlimited undo levels, later releases support an undo tree. It eventually gives the editor VCS-like features. You can undo the current file to any point in the past, even if a change was already undone again. Another neat feature is persistent undo, which enables to undo changes after the file was closed and reopened again. See More

Top Pro

Asynchronous I/O support

Since Vim 8, Vim can exchange characters with background processes asynchronously. This avoids the problem of the text editor getting stuck when a plugin that had to communicate with a server was running. Now plugins can send and receive data from external scripts without forcing Vim to freeze. See More

Top Pro

Flexible feature-set

Vim allows users to include many features found in IDEs and competing editors, but does not force them all on the user. This not only helps keep it lighter in weight than a lot of other options, but it also helps ensure that some unused features will not get in the way. See More

Top Pro

Donations and support to Vim.org helps children in Uganda through ICCF Holland

Top Pro

If you can use Vim you can also use vi

Top Pro

Can set up keymapping

Top Pro

Works on Android

Top Pro

Vim encourages discipline

If you use Vim long enough, it will rewire your brain to be more efficient. See More

Top Pro

Multiple clipboards

It is called "registers". See More

Top Pro

Status Booster

Using vim not just increase your productivity, but helps you flex. See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, macOS, Windows, Cygwin

License:Vim License

Extension language:Vim

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Sublime Text

Top Pro

Comfortable to work with

Sublime Text has a minimap on the side that provides a top-down view of the file and keyboard shortcuts for most actions. It also supports a large number of languages and general text editing features out of the box. See More

Top Con

Paid

Although paying for something good is far from a Con, having the competition this editor has and still have to pay for it is definitely a Con. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

Sublime Text is very lightweight by default. Customization occurs on the fly thanks to Package Control. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

Sublime Text protects and copyrights its code and is thus not the freedom-ware some would like it to be. See More

Top Pro

Functionality can be easily extended

Sublime Text uses TextMate's syntax declaration files to support new languages, it has all its menus and keybindings generated from JSON files, and it can be scripted to add new features using Python. If Sublime Text doesn't support a desired language or feature, it's usually not long before someone implements it themselves - examples include the plugin package manager and the 'open in browser' command. See More

Top Con

Interruption while work

"Purchasing" messages box interrupts while saving file. See More

Top Pro

Beginner-friendly

When you start using Sublime Text, it doesn't drown you in keyboard shortcuts or non-intuitive use-concepts. However, high-level functionality can still be easily accessed when the need for it arises. See More

Top Con

No printing of files

Sublime Texts offers no way of printing the files it edits. See More

Top Pro

Multi-line select and editing

Multiple cursors and column selection allows for versatile ways of editing. ctrl + d will select the current word and each time the command is repeated, it adds the next occurrence of the word to the selection. ctrl + click or middle-mouse click will place another cursor in the place that's clicked. Cursors can then be controlled together. This also permits selecting vertically. ctrl + shift + l will place a cursor on every highlighted line. See More

Top Con

Not a full IDE

It does not necessarily function on a project level. See More

Top Pro

Consistent cross-platform

Sublime Text looks consistently the same across Windows, OS X, and Linux. See More

Top Con

Annoying whitespace management

All too often it does the wrong thing with indentation on otherwise blank lines. See More

Top Pro

Fully customizable

Sublime Text allows for all sorts of customization to help users change almost everything in the editor: Key Bindings, Menus, Snippets, Macros, Completions, and many more. Essentially, just about everything in Sublime Text is customizable with simple JSON files. This system gives the user flexibility as settings can be specified on a per-file type and per-project basis. See More

Top Con

Loading big files on Windows is slow

Here's a rough comparison: a 70 MB file takes about 2 seconds to load in Notepad++, whereas the same file in ST3 takes over 10 seconds to load. See More

Top Pro

Has tons of plugins available

Top Con

No toolbar

Sublime Text is more focused on keyboard users, meaning it doesn't come with a tool bar. Even plugins can't toggle bookmarks using the mouse. See More

Top Pro

Very fast

Sublime is quick to start and never slows down. The UI is always responsive and you know what is happening in the background. See More

Top Con

Slow development

While development has yet to stop on Sublime Text, it is significantly slower than its competitors Atom, VSCode, and others. See More

Top Pro

Installable package manager

The package manager is a plugin and can be swapped with something else custom. See More

Top Con

Inadequate language support

Sublime Text offers poor support for Far-East languages in Linux. See More

Top Pro

IDE features without the cruft

Sublime Text, while being lighter-weight than an IDE, still supports many IDE features. Text from the current file is used to provide autocomplete. Project Support (folder browsing, scoped history, build-system declarations). Refactoring support is emulated through multi-select, project-wide find and replace, and regular expression search. Syntax-aware selection and GoTo for quickly jumping to locations in the project. Snippets and Macros. A Python console for everything else. See More

Top Con

No RTL Support

Although it is a "text" editor, Sublime Text does not support rendering text written in Arabic or other right to left languages. The developers seems unwilling to fix this issue any time soon. See More

Top Pro

Offers Command Palette

Command Palette allows for fuzzy searching all available settings, snippets, etc. See More

Top Con

Often crashes due to poor quality plugins

Some plugins are quite buggy, meaning that installing many can become quite a problem regarding stability. See More

Top Pro

Easy to get started

All you need to do when starting up is to install a package manager and modify user configuration. See More

Top Pro

Regex commands

Regex commands help describe a certain amount of text. See More

Top Pro

Customizable keymapping

From menus to commands, assign key maps to almost anything. See More

Top Pro

Portable settings

Settings are modular and can be shared. See More

Top Pro

Distraction free editing mode

Distraction free editing takes over your screen and removes every UI element so you can focus on code. See More

Top Pro

Dynamic Build System

Choose from many build systems or craft your own. See More

Top Pro

Freemium

A Sublime license can be bought but it can still be used for free. However, a pop-up appears when you save multiple times. See More

Top Pro

Permits instant file switching

Open Goto Anything by pressing Ctrl or Command + P and by using fuzzy search you can look for a file in your project. The file will load even without pressing enter, so you can make sure you've found the correct file without committing. See More

Top Pro

Multiple languages are supported

Top Pro

Haxe and OpenFL integration via plugin

Both of these programming interfaces are cross-platform, open source, and easy to use. See More

Top Pro

Direct server upload

Provides command line shortcut for server upload. See More

Top Pro

Projects support multiple folders and git repos

Top Pro

Allows for Vim-style editing

Vintage mode is Vim-style editing that's already built into the text editor. See More

Top Pro

Support for TextMate themes and window decoration themes

Sublime Text compatibility with Textmate bundles is good, but excludes commands, which are incompatible. In general, Sublime Text syntax definitions are compatible with Textmate language files (.tmLanguage extension). See More

Top Pro

Highly Theme-able

Create your own theme with online editor. See More

Top Pro

Functionalities

With lot of functionalities, where other editor even not think to provide. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

License:Proprietary

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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Visual Studio Code

Top Pro

TypeScript integration

There is very solid TypeScript integration in Visual Studio Code. Both are developed by Microsoft and VSC itself is written in TypeScript. See More

Top Con

Embedded Git isn't powerful enough

You can do nothing but to track changes, stage them and commit. No history, visualization, rebasing or cherry-picking – these things are left to git console or external git client. See More

Top Pro

JavaScript IntelliSense support

JavaScript IntelliSense allows Visual Studio Code to provide you with useful hints and auto-completion features while you code. See More

Top Con

The autocomplete and code check is not as powerful as the one on WebStorm

Sometimes it doesn't tell you if you made a typo in a method name or if a method is not used and several other important features. See More

Top Pro

Extendable through plug-ins

Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box, but there are many plug-ins available to extend its functionality. See More

Top Con

File search is extremely slow

It's absolutely not possible to use this tool with big projects given how long it takes to search for files. See More

Top Pro

Integrated debugging

VSC includes debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript. See More

Top Con

Project search limits results

Because file search is so slow your results are limited in order to simulate a faster search. See More

Top Pro

Embedded Git control

Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control, guaranteeing speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows. See More

Top Con

Very bad auto import

Top Pro

Great performance

For a 'wrapped' web-based application, Visual Studio Code performs very well. See More

Top Con

Generalized

VS Code is a general code/scripting IDE built to be lightweight and for people familiar with their language of choice, not directly comparable to Visual Studio in power or scope. See More

Top Pro

Ready to use out of the box

You don't need to configure and add plugins before being productive. However, you can add plugins if needed but for the basics you're well covered. See More

Top Con

Memory hog

Allegedly, VS Code is "lightweight". Yet, running multiple instances of it at once, you may get many "out of memory" messages from Windows despite 16 GB RAM. (While of course also running other things. The point is the comparison with some other IDEs/editors where running them alongside the same number of other applications doesn't cause Windows to run out of memory) See More

Top Pro

Integrated terminal

There's no need to press alt+tab to go to a terminal: it is directly integrated into the editor. Shift+~ is a handy hotkey to toggle the integrated terminal. See More

Top Con

Poor error fix suggestions

Error detection and suggestions/fixes are poor compared to IntelliJ platforms See More

Top Pro

Updated frequently

There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month. If you are one of the insiders then releases are daily. See More

Top Con

A "me too" offering from MS, far behind other well established editors that it attempts to clone

Other IDEs specific to a language often offer better tools for deep programming. See More

Top Pro

ESLint integration

ESLint integrates great. You can define your rules trough .eslintrc.* as usual and vs code will autofix your code on save. So your code is always in style. See More

Top Con

Slow launch time

Slower than it's competitors, e.g. Sublime Text. See More

Top Pro

Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript. See More

Top Con

Emmet plugin often fails on even simple p tags

Top Pro

Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License. See More

Top Con

Have no good default js style analyzer

In WebStorm there is analyzer that checks for warnings and highlight this in yellow, here you cannot find or add it even with plugins. It is possible to have it as errors with linter but while you are actively changing file that's not very nice. See More

Top Pro

Active development

It's really nice to see how the code editor evolves. Every month there is a new version with great communication of new features and changes. See More

Top Con

.sass linting is terrible

Top Pro

Fast and powerful

VS-Code has the speed of Sublime and the power of WebStorm. Perhaps this is the best software that Microsoft has ever created. See More

Top Con

Is not an IDE, is a text editor

Top Pro

Integrated task runners

Task runners display lists of available tasks and performing these tasks is as simple as a click of the mouse. See More

Top Pro

It has gotten really good

All it takes is one stop for all the features many people need. See More

Top Pro

Custom snippets support

Snippets are templates that will insert text for you and adapt it to their context, and in VSC they are highly customizable. See More

Top Pro

Huge community behind it

The ease of getting assistance and finding tutorials is increasing as the community grows. See More

Top Pro

JS typechecking

It leverages TypeScript compiler functionality to statically type check JS (type inference, JSDoc types) with "javascript.implicitProjectConfig.checkJs": true option. See More

Top Pro

Python support

Excellent Python plugin, originally created by Don Jayamanne, now hired by Microsoft to extend and maintain the extension. See More

Top Pro

Good support for new Emmet syntax

Top Pro

High fidelity C# plugin

The Omnisharp plugin is very powerful providing full sln, csproj, and project.json support. See More

Top Pro

Support RTL languages

It supports pretty web rtl languages like arabic languages when most of other editors don't support it. See More

Top Pro

Inline definition picking and usages finding

These features allow you to have a glance at code without opening it as a whole in a separate tab. Moreover, editing is allowed. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

License:MIT, Proprietary (official builds)

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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Mou

Top Con

No longer maintained

The latest version was released in 2014, version 1.0 was announced for 2015 but was never released. The app is not compatible with macOS Sierra. See More

Top Pro

Advanced text editing

Mou has word auto-completion (accessed via 'esc') for English words, text transformation such as conversions to uppercase, blockquote or an h1 heading, HTML entities (such as <’s, &’s and spaces) that can be added anywhere in the text and customizable keyboard shortcuts for everything allowing for efficient use of the software's capabilities. See More

Top Con

Only free until 1.0 release

Once 1.0 is released (still unreleased as of May 2017, release was planned for August 2015), Mou will cost $30. It can currently be pre-ordered for half the price. See More

Top Pro

Full syntax highlighting

Mou provides full syntax highlighting for Markdown. The highlighting can be customized manually or by applying a predefined theme. See More

Top Con

Text is hard to read on a big screen in full-screen mode

On big screens legibility is pretty bad when entering full-screen mode because the text is not columned nor centered. On smaller screens though, legibility is quite good even on full-screen. See More

Top Pro

Has real-time split-screen preview

Mou is split into two columns. It displays raw Markdown on the left and formatted text on the right. Text on the right will update in near real-time as raw Markdown is written. See More

Top Con

Doesn't work as well with non-monospaced fonts

When using a non-monospaced font, the text jiggles around. It can be very annoying since users may not always want to write with a monospaced font. See More

Top Pro

Powerful search

Mou can do incremental ("find as you type") pattern matching search. For example, it can find all words that have x as the third letter followed by at least 4 more letters and a line break. See More

Top Con

Switching live preview on/off changes the width of text area

Top Pro

Free beta versions

Mou is available as a free download up until the release of 1.0. See More

Top Con

v1.0 was promised to Indiegogo founders more than a year ago

Safe to say this is dead software at this point. See More

Top Pro

Customizable

The whole editor can be customized using different color schemes and users can create own variations by editing CSS. See More

Top Pro

Support for CJK characters

Mou supports CJK characters for writing Markdown in Chinese, Japanese or Korean. See More

Top Pro

Export as HTML or PDF

Markdown can be exported as an HTML or a PDF file. Each export can also be styled by a custom CSS. See More

Top Pro

Customizable keyboard shortcuts

Mou has keyboard shortcuts for all text manipulation actions allowing for highly efficient use of the software. These shortcuts can also be manually edited to better fit each individual workflow. See More

Top Pro

Includes optional typewriter keypress sounds

The app includes optional atmospheric typewriter sounds that are triggered with each keypress. These can be enabled in the settings. See More

Top Pro

Scriptogr.am & Tumblr integration via Dropbox

Mou allows writing and publishing to blogs from within the editor. See More

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