What is the best alternative to Ninja IDE?

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score 296 · Answer 1

Neovim

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Platforms:Linux, Windows, macOS, *nix, Android

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score 98 · Answer 2

Geany

For example, there is an easy way to change the font and theme in the View menu. No need to search through several syntax styles like in Notepad++ just to be able to change the used font. See More

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Platforms:Windows; OSX; *nix

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score 1382 · Answer 3

Vim

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

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Platforms:Linux, macOS, Windows

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score 1899 · Answer 4

Visual Studio Code

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

Top Pro

Good support for new Emmet syntax

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Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

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score 994 · Answer 5

Atom

Arduino is the most important platform for developing embedded systems. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

License:MIT

Price:free

Dev platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

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score 5 · Answer 6

juCi++

Top Pro

Lightweight

Provides fast editing with autocompletion. See More

Top Con

Not really feature rich

Has not as much features as most other IDEs. See More

Top Pro

Licensed under MIT

Open source and free of any charges. Hosted on Github. See More

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Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux

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score 20 · Answer 7

PaizaCloud IDE

Multi Language Support:Yes

Git:Yes

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score 37 · Answer 8

CodeBlocks

score 25 · Answer 9

PyScripter

Top Pro

Lightweight

PyScripter is a lightweight Python IDE. See More

Top Con

Windows only

Available for Windows only. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Covers the needs of advanced users (thread debugging, unit testing etc.) See More

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Cross Platform:No

Auto Complete:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

Bracket Matching:Yes

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score 32 · Answer 10

Wing Python IDE

License:Commercial (with paid and free editions)

Price:US $69-179 annual or US $95-245 perpetual (and 2 free options)

Dev platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi

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score 69 · Answer 11

CodeLite

The workspace view, unlike other IDEs, is a reflection of the actual directory structure on the file system (with user filters applied). See More

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Platforms:Windows, OS-X and Linux

License:GPL

Price:Free

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score 37 · Answer 12

Spacemacs with Python layer

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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Platforms:Windows, Unix, Mac

License:GPLv3

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 424 · Answer 13

Spacemacs

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 11 · Answer 14

Gnome Builder

Good templates available to build applications, even to build gnome applications. See More

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score 118 · Answer 15

Qt Creator

Integrated Debugger:yes

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score 92 · Answer 16

PyCharm Community Edition

score 24 · Answer 17

GNU Emacs

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Experiences

Emacs has modes for nearly every use case, even ones like mail and internet browsing. It has often been said that Emacs is essentially an operating system on its own. See More

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score 213 · Answer 18

CLion

Top Pro

Cross platform

Clion works on Windows, Linux and OSX. See More

Top Con

Build Tool Integration is messy/over complicated

I have a Jetbrains annual subscription so I can use this tool for free and I've used the Java IDE for years so I really want to like CLion. But it's just over complex to add 3rd party libraries etc. Netbeans/Eclipse etc are much better integrated with the build tools See More

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Intelligent code completion

CLion has an intelligent autocompletion engine that tries to predict the symbol you are typing based on your previous history and the context in which it's being typed. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

Clion is proprietary software which costs $199/1st year for a business license or $89/1st year for an individual license. See More

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Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux

License:Proprietary

Price:$89/1st year (individual customer)

Auto Complete:Yes

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score 56 · Answer 19

Spyder

Dynamic variable explorer with editor and visualizer See More

Top Pro

Completely Python

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Cross Platform:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

Multi Language Support:No

Bracket Matching:Yes

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score 447 · Answer 20

Emacs

Managing several large mailing lists has never been easier using Gnus. The threading commands and the various ways of scoring articles means that I never miss important messages/authors, etc. A joy to use. See More

Top Pro

eshell is cross platform

Top Pro

Interactive Shells

Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell. See More

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Platforms:Unix-like, Windows

License:GPL

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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