What is the best alternative to Ninja IDE?

Geany is not as popular as some other text editors with plugin support. As such it's understandable that it's missing lots of powerful plugins available in other editors.

Similar to Notepad or Gedit.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

Atom is very slow to startup, which is a big disadvantage if you are accustomed to using it to make quick changes on your files.

Atom has a relatively high memory usage, especially when compared to some other text editors not based on Electron. For those who develop on the go, this also tends to mean shorter battery life.

Tends to crash or hang with large >(10MB) text files, making it less useful as a general text editor.

Available for Windows only.

Has not as much features as most other IDEs.

Because it is still in early development there are little project management functionalities.

Price is starting from $39 per user for the most basic configuration.

While it's better than it used to be, with most functions being possible through the menu, Emacs is still quite a bit different from your standard editor. You'll need to learn new keyboard shortcuts.

I'm editing this in Chrome, but I could be using Firefox, Edge, or any other browser, or Notepad, or even Libreoffice or Microsoft Word, and in ALL of those cases, keys would work exactly the same way, including how to jump around by word, select words, cut/copy/paste, etc. Pretty much all mo...

For example, for navigation it uses the b, n, p, l keys. Which for some people may seem strange.

QtCreator has lack of refactoring features. It's not even close to Resharper++ or CLion

While multiple windows are supported, many operations will activate in the primary window (search, debug, goto-line... etc).

Qt Creator is focused on being an IDE for Qt, as a general purpose IDE it performs quite well, but there are areas which are lacking such as project file support (support for generic/CMake projects lags behind Qt projects).

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 delayed auto-loading of packages in unpredictable o...

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.

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.

The UI is fairly boring and has limited customization options. There is a dark theme available, however it only applies to the editor. The surrounding windows and borders remain light. You can see a collection of screenshots here.

Although configuration is heavily lazy loaded, the starting time of Spacemacs is usually between two and five seconds. Emacs can be run as a daemon though which reduces the clients startup time to a few milliseconds.

It becomes extremely frustrating when you have to wait for the text you've typed to appear in your editor. Furthermore, during these freezes the editor does not always queue what your're typing, so you might have to wait > 15 seconds before you can continue your editing. This quickly aff...

Can use a lot of memory (several GBs).

Some features are locked behind a paywall.

Neovim is not available for many legacy platforms. The Windows version is currently considered experimental.

At the time of writing this, no equivalents to gVim exist.

While it's better than it used to be, with most functions being possible through the menu, Emacs is still quite a bit different from your standard editor. You'll need to learn new keyboard shortcuts.

If I ever want to lose half a day, I'll start by tweaking my .spacemacs config file.

For example, for navigation it uses the b, n, p, l keys. Which for some people may seem strange. But don't worry, you can change it.

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

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

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

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

The Netbeans IDE is known to take a large memory as compared to other lighter IDE's available on the market. Slowdowns can decrease productivity and cause frustration.

It went down from two releases a year with minor bug-fix releases to one release and no fixes. There seem to be fewer features added per release as well. There is no activity in the plugin community.