What is the best alternative to&#x20;Komodo IDE?

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

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Visual Studio Code

Top Pro

JavaScript IntelliSense support

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 plugins

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

Top Con

Very bad auto import

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

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

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

Integrated debugging

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

Top Con

No support for tiled/grid editor layouts

It can be configured for rows of editors, or columns of editors, but not both simultaneously. The development team has explicitly said this is not a priority. 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

Is not an IDE, is a text editor

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

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

Great performance

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

Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript. 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

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

Have no good default js style analyzer

In WebStorm there is analyzer that checks for warnings and highlight this in yellow, here I 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

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 Con

Slow launch time

Than it's competitors, e.g. Sublime Text. 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

Emmet plugin often fails on even simple p tags

Top Pro

Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License. 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

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

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

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 Pro

High fidelity C# plugin

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

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

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

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

Top Pro

Python support

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

Specs

Atom has a built-in package manager and an extensive list of packages. Packages are written in CoffeeScript. See More

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Atom

Top Pro

Extensive list of packages

Top Con

Very slow startup time

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. See More

Top Pro

Built-in package management

Atom was built from the ground up with the community in mind. Package management is therefore a first class feature. See More

Top Con

High memory usage

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. See More

Top Pro

Extendable

Due to its modular design, almost any aspect of the editor can be changed. Even seemingly core packages, like those taking care of search and replace functionality, can be forked on GitHub, and changed and replaced in the editor. The documentation for creating new plugins is also great, making it easier for developers to jump in and create plugins for Atom. See More

Top Con

Has difficulty with large text files

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

Top Pro

Multiplatform

Atom can run on Mac, Windows, and Linux. See More

Top Con

Slows down exponentially with plugins

Extending it needs sacrificing responsiveness See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Atom is free, open source, and written in C++, LESS, and CoffeeScript. See More

Top Con

No text UI

Top Pro

Beginner friendly

One of the goals of Atom is to be a text editor for both experienced and beginner programmers. You can add keyboard shortcuts, change themes, install plugins, and change core settings by clicking through a GUI, or by manually editing config files the old-fashioned way. It has the added advantage of being built using the same engine that powers Google Chrome, so actions like opening and closing tabs feel familiar, even to new or non-programmers. See More

Top Con

Doesn't handle RTL (right-to-left text) well

Text can't be highlighted and manipulated properly, cursor isn't displayed visually according to where it is logically (you have to type to find out), and similar issues. See More

Top Pro

Embedded Git control

Atom will highlight folders, files, and lines that have any uncommitted edits made. It also integrates really well with GitHub. See More

Top Con

Not known when a new window will open

It's not really clear why and when a new window is opened when you open a file out of the tree view. See More

Top Pro

Multi-line select and edit

Multiple cursors and column selection allow 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 allows for selecting vertically. See More

Top Con

Depends on old software

Depends on python 2, which dies out. See More

Top Pro

Command Palette support

The Command Palette permits fuzzy searching all available functions, settings, snippets, etc. See More

Top Con

Slow

Atom is not a native application. As such performance is subpar and the lag is especially noticeable on larger projects. It also opens a surprising amount of sub-processes and leaks a considerable amount of memory. See More

Top Pro

Allows for instant file switching

By pressing Ctrl or Command + T and using fuzzy search, you can look for a file in your project. See More

Top Con

Missing additional touches

As Atom is still relatively new, it's missing nice little touches that other text editors have implemented over the years. From simple ease-of-use items like middle-mouse button multi-cursor select, to the ways pasted information from a spreadsheet is interpreted in multi-select situations. See More

Top Pro

Command line integration out of the box

Installing Atom adds two command line commands - atom and apm. The first one runs the application itself while the second is the Atom Package Manager that's used to add and remove various components from the package listing. While these features can be set up with other editors as well, Atom takes care of them out of the box. See More

Top Con

Doesn't recognize some keyboards

Top Pro

Themes

You can theme and customize Atom to your liking. See More

Top Con

Crash and data loss

I lost unsaved changes 2 times when the app crashes. A bugreport about that was closed automatically after some time, nobody cares. https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/12245 See More

Top Pro

HiDPI support

Atom has built-in HiDPI support with zero scaling issues. See More

Top Pro

Modern feel and very customizable and extendable

Top Pro

Vim plugin turns Atom into a modernized vim

Top Pro

Best support for Arduino with Platformio

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

License:MIT

Price:free

Dev platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

Supports Symfony1, Symfony2,Yii2 & Zend frameworks. See More

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NetBeans

Top Pro

Frameworks support

Top Con

Tries to do everything for you and gets it wrong too many times

Top Pro

Multiple revision control system integration

Has built-in support for the most popular revision control systems See More

Top Con

Slows down occasionally

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. See More

Top Pro

PHPUnit support

PHPUnit is a testing framework. You can create test classes, run and see the code coverage directly from IDE interface. See More

Top Con

Development has stalled dramatically

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. See More

Top Pro

Composer commands inside IDE

The most used composer commands can be done directly from IDE. See More

Top Pro

Free, open source, and cross-platform

NetBeans is a free, GPL-licensed IDE. It can run on any computer with a Java virtual machine. If a computer has a Java virtual machine (JVM), Netbeans can run on it. Netbeans can, therefore, run on a variety of operating systems such as Windows, *nix, and Mac OS. Being open source means that developers can contribute changes to the code to have the IDE better serve them. See More

Top Pro

FTP/SFTP synchronization

Supports synchronization with projects stored remotely through FTP or SFTP. See More

Top Pro

ApiGen support

ApiGen allows automatically generating documentation from specifically formatted comments. It's easy to use, supports traits, allows fuzzy searching for classes and highlighting docblocks using Markdown. See More

Top Pro

Supports Twig templates

NetBeans provides code completion and documentation for all Twig elements. See More

Top Pro

Supports community plugins

NetBeans can be extended beyond the basic tool that you get out of the box through community made custom plugins. See More

Top Pro

Best for PHP, HTML5 Apps Developemt

Top Pro

Accelerated HTML5 development support

Top Pro

Less and Sass Compiler support

Top Pro

Linux terminal inside IDE

You can run Linux terminal inside the IDE. See More

Top Pro

Bower support

Top Pro

Supports Smarty

Supports Smarty Template Engine right out of the box. See More

Top Pro

ApiGen and PHPDoc support

Supports documentation generation through ApiGen and PHPDoc. See More

Top Pro

Powerful debugging and performance optimization

Netbeans not only debugs your code, and points out errors but also gives you hints on which sections of your code could be further optimized. See More

Top Pro

You can access source code history

There's a built-in local history that lets you compare code changes and revert to a specific revision. Helpful when source code file accidentally overwritten. See More

Top Pro

JMeter benchmarking tool support

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

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Brackets

Top Pro

Built-in browser live-updating

Brackets will automatically refresh the browser and load the latest saved version of a file open in the browser. This works with php as well. Editing a css will even highlight the tag that's currently being worked on. However, it only works with Chrome. See More

Top Con

Still missing some elementary text editor commands

Some gaps have to be filled by plugins, while these features should be built in. For example: Jump to matching brace (bracket / parenthesis); Gutter selection of lines; Recall previous searches / replacements; Autofill of search field with text under caret (text has to be selected); Show whitespace / end of lines / indentation guides / right margin; Selection to upper / lower case; and some more. See More

Top Pro

Free, open source and cross-platform

Brackets is entirely free and open source. See More

Top Con

Problematic updater

Though the website says there is an update available, the updater in Brackets may give you an error, resulting in you having to download updates manually. See More

Top Pro

Built-in extension manager

The functionality of Brackets can be extended via a simple-to-use extension manager. The extension manager also has a considerable number of extensions and themes. See More

Top Con

Slow

Top Pro

Actively developed

Brackets is being actively maintained and developed. See More

Top Con

Supports only web languages by default <but>

Brackets is built for web development and that's where it excels at out of the box. Other languages that have a CodeMirror mode can be added as well. <and language support plugins can be added> See More

Top Pro

Can style a tag without switching over to the stylesheet

A feature called "Quick Edit" allows the user to select a tag in (a html file, for example) and edit the associated style without switching over to the css document. It also supports SASS and LESS pre-processors. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

Brackets is easy on memory usage and it starts up quickly. See More

Top Pro

Can be hacked by any front-end developer

The editor is built using html, css, and javascript, making it extendable by any front-end developer. See More

Top Pro

Popup previews

Hovering over colors hex codes or image paths will pop up previews of corresponding colors and images. See More

Top Pro

Drag and drop support

Brackets supports drag and drop of text, as well as multi / rectangular selection. See More

Top Pro

Vim mode

Vim-style editing is already built in the text editor. See More

Top Pro

Support for Adobe PSD content

A default extension allows for the extraction of PSD resources, such as images and styles. There's good integration for placing extracted resources into source. See More

Specs

Supported remote file editing protocols:FTP (plug-in)

License:MIT

Collaborative editing:No

The jQuery support (when you install the jQuery plugin) is great. It adds function definitions so that autocomplete works as intended. Furthermore, the IDE knows about the logic of the different libraries and frameworks and can understand that $(this) refers to a jQuery instance. See More

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Codelobster

Top Pro

Special support for JQuery through the jQuery plugin

Top Con

You need to sign up to get a free serial number for the free version

In order to use the free version of Codelobster, you have to sign up and get a free account. This is done to help stopping piracy, but it's still pretty jarring when all you want to do is install a program. See More

Top Pro

Portable option available

Codelobster IDE offers a lightweight, portable option. See More

Top Con

Expensive

For the Pro version (which includes all the available plug-ins), the cost is $99.95. The lite version (without plugins) is $39.95. See More

Top Pro

Hovering over a CSS property shows you which browsers are supported by that property

This is a really nice feature as it immediately shows you the browsers that support a certain CSS property. Of course, it does not beat actual testing, but it's still a nice feature that saves developers a lot of time. See More

Top Pro

Free version available

There is a free version available for download; it comes with a lot of features that you would find in an IDE. See More

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PhpStorm

Top Pro

Intelligent code completion

PhpStorm has two types of autocompletion: structural completion and word expansion. Structural autocompletion makes predictions based on its understanding of PHP, 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

Resource exhaustive

It often maxes out even 4 cores, not to mention several hundred MBs of RSS with a single small project opened. See More

Top Pro

Supports various PHP frameworks

Supports Symfony2 (including Twig and Doctrine), Yii frameworks, and Laravel. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

It is not free software (free as in freedom). See More

Top Pro

PHPDoc support

PHPDoc is a documentation generator. It allows automatically generating documentation from specifically formatted comments. See More

Top Con

Pricey

Currently costs £78 but does not seem to offer much more than some free counterparts. See More

Top Pro

Inspections of all kinds

Not just for PHP, HTML and JavaScript, but especially good is SQL inspection and auto-completion of tables and fields. You can see at a glance, that your DB structure is in sync with your code. See More

Top Con

Slow performance

A very slow indexing, many memory leaks, large projects after some time will be very slow, opening large files like 10mb can even break IDE. See More

Top Pro

External command support

Ability to setup custom external commands, which is something inherited from eclipse and found lacking on netbeans. See More

Top Con

Interface is cluttered

Top Pro

Phar package recognition

Phar support allows running complete applications out of .phar files. See More

Top Con

Sometimes buggy

Index gets corrupt which results in errors in syntax presentation, code validation and auto-completion. Version-control system sometimes stops working, occasionally freezes in big files See More

Top Pro

Database view

The database tab, while not perfect, provides all the tools you need for daily usage. You always have your DB overview on the side (you can hide it when not needed). See More

Top Con

Bloated

Top Pro

Built-in debugger

Has built in support for Xdebug including remote debugging. See More

Top Pro

Plugins allow futureproofing and customization

Active development work on plugins is always a plus, as it can extend the use of the IDE. See More

Top Pro

Auto-sync with remote folders

It allows monitoring code and sync the files that need to be changed with a remote server. This works more efficiently than libnotify and faster than vagrant auto rsync. See More

Top Pro

Has built-in console and SSH clients

This allows execution of needed commands without switching to other windows. It also keeps track of what's happening right in the IDE, which is especially good with Vagrant, because you can connect to a VM in a single click. See More

Top Pro

Integrated Git GUI support

Allows users to manage their repositories directly from the IDE with a GUI which lets you do all Git commands. See More

Top Pro

Integrated Vagrant support

It recognizes Vagrantfile and allows full control from the IDE. See More

Top Pro

Zero latency typing

Type codes with pleasure. Delay of visual feedback on a computer display has an important effect on typist's behavior and satisfaction, as cited here. See More

Top Pro

It comes with Testing RESTful Web Services

Save time of building your own or integrating libraries for testing RESTful Web Services. PHPStorm enables you to test endpoints without leaving your workspace or disrupting your workflow . You can code your endpoints in one window and test it immediately from another window. See More

Top Pro

Lots of plugins

Lots of plugins from JetBrains and the community are available, from useful things like support for Docker, Vagrant, Angular, Vue.js and more useless (but fun) like a nyan cat progress bar. See More

Top Pro

Emmet integrated

Top Pro

Templating support

Supports Twig and Laravel's Blade (among others). Technically the later is part of a framework which Phpstorm supports but I've seen IDEs (e.g. Netbeans) with Laravel support but no blade support so it does deserve a notable mention. See More

Top Pro

Responsive core developers

Top Pro

Task/Context functionality

Similar to Eclipse Mylyn: you can create tasks or retrieve them from your ticketing system, and each task keeps its own context (opened files, modifications, etc.). See More

Top Pro

Code Refactoring

Quickly rename classes, methods, and variables used across multiple files in the project. See More

Specs

Multi Language Support:Yes

Cross Platform:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

CodeLite takes up about 50 MB when loaded into memory with a workspace opened. See More

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CodeLite IDE

Top Pro

Modest memory footprint

Top Con

Bland UI

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. See More

Top Pro

Open source and free

CodeLite is licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub. See More

Top Pro

Extensive plugin support

Git, SFTP, Subversion, and many more plugins are fully supported in CodeLite IDE. See More

Top Pro

Rapid development cycle

CodeLite is actively developed with activity almost daily on Github. See More

Top Pro

Workspace view reminiscent of File Explorer

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

Top Pro

Excellent Node.js debugger

This makes fixing issues more efficiently and debugging code less painful. See More

Top Pro

Intelligent code completion

Language support is increasingly dated. See More

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Aptana Studio

Top Con

No longer updated

Top Pro

Available in standalone and Eclipse plugin versions

Aptana Studio has standalone (130.7 MB for Windows) and Eclipse-plugin versions. See More

Top Con

Many dependencies

Aptana has a couple of dependencies to keep in mind. It is built with Java and and has some requirements for the JDK version. Aptana requires Git, and Eclipse 3.5+ if you are installing it as an Eclipse plugin. See More

Top Pro

HTML5-aware code assist

Aptana's code assist displays which tags are supported by which browsers. See More

Top Pro

Support for web projects

Aptana was specifically created for web application development. It supports a variety of languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. See More

Top Pro

Built-in terminal

Has a built-in terminal emulator from which you can run commands. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Aptana is available for free under the GPL license with source code available on GitHub. See More

Top Pro

Git integration

Aptana provides integrated support for Git to make collaboration and version control easier. See More

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

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Spacemacs

Top Pro

Combines the best parts of Vi and Emacs

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 delayed auto-loading of packages in unpredictable order, different modes for different file types, 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

Top Pro

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

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

Top Pro

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

Top Con

Slow 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. See More

Top Pro

Community-driven configuration

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

Top Pro

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

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

Top Pro

Cross-platform

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

Top Pro

Completely configured out of the box

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

Top Pro

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

Top Pro

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 Pro

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

Top Pro

Fast-paced development

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

Top Pro

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 Pro

Manage many code bases easily

Top Pro

Remote file editing

Files can be edited in Spacemacs remotely. See More

Top Pro

Great note-taking and agenda "app" built-in

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

Top Pro

Works well with Common Lisp

Top Pro

Offers a number of practical features

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

Top Pro

LaTeX support

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

Top Pro

Can work in terminal mode

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

Top Pro

Daemon support

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

Top Pro

Manage R files easily

Top Pro

Great CFEngine support

Syntax highlighting and org-babel extensions. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux

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Codenvy

Top Pro

Easy setup

Once an account is set up and the user has logged in, all that's needed to start is to pick a language, a framework and a PaaS. Codenvy also allows anonymous logins albeit with some important limitations. See More

Top Con

No custom keyboard shortcuts

No possibility to create custom keyboard shortcuts. See More

Top Pro

Partly open source

Codenvy is a full multi-user, multi-account, multi-tenant implementation of Eclipse Che. See More

Top Con

No SSH, FTP mode

For example, "Code everywhere" allows using SSH, FTP as base of project. In Codenvy it's possible only through VM. See More

Top Pro

On-demand, instant-access, real-time collaborative IDEs

Codenvy "Factory" feature enables developers to create temporary IDE workspaces with full code, build, test, deploy, and collaboration functionality that can be shared with a URL. Multiple people can work in the same workspace making code reviews and teaching simpler and faster. And there's no limit to collaborators. Factories also work with external git repositories and can be shared with not registered users of Codenvy. It also allows counting how much a factory is used. See More

Top Con

No Collaborative editing

At the moment, Codenvy does not have real-time collaborative-editing. But this is on roadmap, and would be implemented soon. See More

Top Pro

Has a fully functional free tier

Codenvy provides a fully functional free tier with 3 GB of RAM and unlimited workspaces, free and public projects and developers. Premium subscription start at $1/month and offers machines with up to 200GB of RAM. Codenvy also offers an on-premises solution that costs $300/user/year. See More

Top Con

Lacks two-factor authentication

Top Pro

Powerful editor

Codenvy has a fast, secure browser-based editor that supports syntax highlighting, code completion, refactoring and more. It can be used to edit, build, run and debug projects. It even has multi-cursor support. The layout will be familiar to most developer, especially those experienced with Eclipse, with a file explorer on the left, code on the right and tabs for builders, runners, terminal and events at the bottom. See More

Top Con

Slow installation by default

Trying to install with "npm install" and the server restarts before the installation. However, you can circumvent this by using npm install --no-bin-links. See More

Top Pro

Beginner-friendly

It allows going to any box and pick up a project and work on it. See More

Top Con

Non-optimistic UI, typing results in letters being sent to server and back and then they show.

Top Pro

Fantastic Java support

All Java builders, syntax highlighting, class navigator, jump to package and declaration, and JavaDoc are present in Codenvy. See More

Top Pro

Can provide a custom runtime environment

Codenvy can provide a runtime environment to test and debug code. This can also be used to share work progress with a client. Codenvy uses Docker as the runtime application and gives access to Dockerfiles allowing any environment that runs on Linux to be built. This allows using any database, reverse proxy or builder, etc. Codenvy even provides SSH access to running container in every image. There's also a selection of pre-built environments to speed up the development. See More

Top Pro

Git support

Codenvy supports all Git commands through UI and Codenvy CLI. Codenvy also integrates well with all major Git hosting providers including GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab. Sign up, sign in, repo cloning, uploading SSH keys are supported. Tutorials for integrating various providers can be found here. See More

Top Pro

Provides a terminal with root access

Codenvy offers a terminal with full root access into the machine. Since machines can be defined with Dockerfiles this gives the ability to create any custom environment for building, running or debuging and all the access that's needed to use it as a local machine. See More

Top Pro

Complete build lifecycle

The IDE allows validating, compiling, testing, packaging and deploying. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with a wide variety of tools

Codenvy offers first class support for code management, continuous integration, PaaS, and project management tools. See More

Top Pro

Self-hostable (priced)

Codenvy has an on-premises solution that allows running it on own hardware and behind a firewall. The service costs $300/user/year. See More

Top Pro

Automation of contribution to GitHub projects

Codenvy provides contribution button that can be placed in Readme.md file on GitHub. It automates contribution to the Github's projects. User clicks this button and it opens a ready to run/edit version of the project in Codenvy. If a user makes changes, Codenvy takes care of everything needed for the contribution on GitHub. fork of the origin project on github add ssh keys to push to github commit push create pull request in the origin project create factory url for review of this pull post this factory in pull request. Then project's owner can use posted link to code review/run project with changes. See More

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Badge to start developing in one click

You can create a .codenvy.json containing the Factory configuration which includes what binaries to install and how to set up the IDE, may be even start the development server. Then create a badge and put it on your GitHub repository and people can start coding and may be compile and run your server with one click. See More

Top Pro

Lots of built-in templates

Top Pro

Nice interface

Look and usability of Codenvy IDE are nice and pleasant. See More

Top Pro

Can be used for Android development

Can be used for android development by adding Eclipse plugin. See More

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Easy projects sharing

Projects are share by sharing the link (public projects), adding access rights (private and public projects) and factory. Factory allows to share projects along with build/run settings. To try run/review project recipient just need an URL. Factory also works with external git repositories so it allows share github/bitbucket/other git hosting projects. Recipient doesn't have to be registered. It also allows giving out a share button that activates the factory and counts how many times it is used. See More

Top Pro

Custom build system support

Codenvy allows setting up any build system via Dockerfile. Instructions on how to do it can be found here. See More

Top Pro

Has Eclipse plugin

Codenvy can be plugged into Eclipse offering choice between online and offline builds. Plugin can be found here. See More

Top Pro

Developer workspace replicas

Codenvy can create a recipe for a developer workspace that includes the build and run environment configuration plus all the IDE plug-ins, syntax rules, policies and other items. Then version and store that with the code in a repository. Makes it impossible to get a code change that doesn't build and run. See More

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Quick support from staff

Top Pro

One-click automation

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SSH Access

Can connect to the workspace via SSH for use with desktop editors. See More

Top Pro

Provides Java debugger

Top Pro

Portable workspaces

You can send someone a short JSON file and your whole workspace (projects, config and runtime) can be replicated for them in a separate container. Great for coordinating among team members. See More

Top Pro

Includes Subversion support

Codenvy includes full subversion version control support. See More

Top Pro

Install anywhere Docker runs

You can install Codenvy on any OS that has Docker running on it. The simple install syntax can work through proxies and even offline. You can use this for proxy install: https://codenvy.com/docs/admin-guide/installation/index.html#proxy-installation You can use this for offline install: https://codenvy.com/docs/admin-guide/installation/index.html#offline-installation See More

Specs

Platforms:Browser-Based

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WebStorm

Top Pro

Node.js integration

WebStorm integrates with Node.js to allow for running, debugging, and unit testing of Node.js apps. See More

Top Con

Occasional slow performance

WebStorm can sometimes choke all cores of the CPU. There are numerous reports of high CPU usage. See More

Top Pro

Code refactoring support

To make sure your code can be easily maintained, you must first be sure to make it clean and tidy. This is the part where WebStorm really helps you. It automatically refactors your code by performing functions on it, such as extraction of variables, moving files, inline variable extraction, etc. See More

Top Con

Not free for commercial use

A paid license is required to use WebStorm for commercial use. The license terms changed in November 2015 and currently require a subscription (per year: $59 personal, $129 for companies). Students can obtain a free non-commercial, educational license good for one year. There is also an option to pay on a monthly basis in addition to perks, such as a fallback commercial license that can be used for free. See More

Top Pro

Integrated code quality tools

WebStorm comes bundled with JSHint and JSLint. JSCS, ESLint, and Closure Linter can be installed via npm. They register as inspections and are customizable through IDE settings. They run automatically and will highlight potential issues. Pressing alt+enter on an issue will allow the user to view suggested fixes. See More

Top Con

Not open source

This application is proprietary, and thus cannot be modified, freely distributed, or trusted for security. See More

Top Pro

Intelligent code completion

WebStorm has two types of autocompletion: structural completion and word expansion. Structural autocompletion makes predictions based on its understanding of 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

You may have to fiddle with the JVM memory settings in configuration files

To get it to run properly, you have to edit the JVM memory settings when you use Node.js. Node.js makes the small JS project you have into a "large" project that requires more memory. See More

Top Pro

Built-in web server

WebStorm has a built-in webserver that allows you to run projects from http://localhost:63342/ProjectName. See More

Top Con

Non-native filesystem causes issues

The Java wrapper around the filesystem doesn't actively watch for file changes (by, for example, using the fsevents api on OS X), and as a result can become easily desynchronised from the actual filesystem. If you have an external tool acting on your project (such as a gulp task or a third-party Git client), what you see in the file browser or in open tabs becomes out-of-date. There's a feature in the context-menu for manually synchronising directories with their real filesystem equivalent, but this shouldn't be necessary and is annoying to do. You usually remember to do that anyway after you've been trying to track down a bug on a line of JavaScript that Webstorm says doesn't exist for the last two hours. It should be noted though that this is easily remedied by going to File/Settings/System Settings and checking the "Synchronize Files on frame or editor tab activation" option. It's also recommended to more explicitly represent your workflow within WebStorm itself. Most external tools/tasks can be handled with WebStorm. And if it's not in a plug-in, then you can handle it with the File Watchers. See More

Top Pro

Maintains a local history

The local history feature in Webstorm tracks all your local changes in the source code that you are making. You can use it to view changes that you've made to your code and roll back whenever necessary. See More

Top Con

Plug-in Ecosystem isn't robust

Every framework or extension with any popularity whatsoever will have a plugin for VS Code. Sometimes they'll still support Atom. Only one in twenty will have native support for WebStorm. If you want support for the latest libraries, you won't get it in WebStorm. See More

Top Pro

Supports a wide range of plug-ins

Top Con

Proprietary file dialogs

Webstorm doesn't use the native Windows and OSX file dialogs, which makes it more of a hassle to open projects. For instance, you don't have access to your favorite folders on the left-hand side in their custom file dialogs. See More

Top Pro

Typescript support

WebStorm offers typescript support for building typed JavaScript applications which improves refactoring and code completion, as well as helping to find bugs. See More

Top Con

Bad default options compared to the competition

Examples are an unreasonably low number of undo steps and automatic saving (which causes webpack dev server to bundle VERY frequently). See More

Top Pro

Supports many JavaScript frameworks

WebStorm includes support for Meteor, Angular, and React. See More

Top Con

Poor usability on option and menu navigation

You need to press a combination of keys or navigate through different menu levels to carry out the two most common things a developer does. For example, to run your code, the default is Shift+F10. To go to definition, you need to click on "Navigation" first. There is no sense to this: being forced to press a combination of keys hundreds of times or navigating through different menus can be a waste of time. See More

Top Pro

Reduces the amount of repetitive code that has to be written with code snippets

WebStorm includes a feature called Live Templates. Live Templates are predefined code snippets that can include variables. They're intended to increase productivity by reducing the amount of repetitive code that has to be written. See More

Top Con

Can't open multiple projects in a single instance

The only way to open multiple projects is to run a new instance of WebStorm which is not ideal. WebStorm can use up to 1-1.5 GB of memory. See More

Top Pro

Ability to base hot keys on previously used IDEs

When you install WebStorm, it allows you to choose from other IDE's for it to base it's hot keys on. So if you are switching from another IDE, it makes it a very easy transition and productivity is not adversely affected by having to learn new hot keys. See More

Top Con

Constantly trailing behind on support for its main features

The Jetbrains team do an admirable job attempting to keep up with support for the features they wrap, but they are running an un-winnable race. For example, WebStorm 11.0.2 hangs when trying to debug NodeJS 5.0+ projects (30+ seconds before hitting breakpoint). By the time they fix it, 5.1 will be out and something else will break. See More

Top Pro

Compilers for compile-to-JavaScript languages

WebStorm has built-in support for CoffeeScript and Dart. See More

Top Con

Newer versions are increasingly unstable

This only happens when it's not a major version. See More

Top Pro

Powerful git and GitHub integration

WebStorm has a powerful visual git tool, allowing for easy commits, visual diffing, merging, push/pull, rebasing, and inspecting the VCS history of a project. GitHub is supported natively - you can check out a project directly from GitHub. See More

Top Pro

Support for Karma test runner

Karma allows you to execute unit tests and monitor code coverage. You can read more about using Karma with WebStorm here. See More

Top Pro

Built-in support for JavaScript task runners

WebStorm has support for Grunt and Gulp task runners. See More

Top Pro

Built-in terminal/run tools

WebStorm (and really all of the IntelliJ IDEs) support the plugins throughout their plugin ecosystem which leaves you with 100s of tools to handle your automation tasks. There is a wide range of build-related plugins that help you by having pre-defined commands to execute with the click of a button. Out of any other IDE, WebStorm has by far the most coverage when it comes to tools for your development workflow. See More

Top Pro

CSS pre-processor support

WebStorm has built-in support for Sass which is one of the most stable and powerful CSS extension languages. See More

Top Pro

Server and client-side debugger

WebStorm has a powerful debugger, with support for conditional breakpoints. See More

Top Pro

Theme support / tweaking

The theme is very easy to customize to your liking. You can change font-size, colors, highlighting colors, and more. See More

Top Pro

Support for all major VCS systems

Webstorm supports not just Git and Mercurial, but Subversion, CVS, and Perforce as well. See More

Top Pro

Multi-line select and editing

Top Pro

Really good configurable code formatting

This integrates with other community tools like ESLint and editorconfig. See More

Top Pro

Powerful Code Templates

Code Templates are powered by Apache VTL (Velocity Template Language) and allow for includes, custom variables, conditional blocks, iterators, and live templates. See More

Top Pro

Free for open-source development, students, and teacher

Non-commercial open source projects, and students and teachers (including classroom licenses) may qualify for a free license. There is a 50% off license for startups (under 3 years old). You can read more about it here. See More

Top Pro

Special icons for most filetypes in project list

Webstorm comes with icons for many filetypes which makes it easier to find what you're looking for in the project list. See More

Top Pro

Has a built-in terminal

The IDE comes with a built-in terminal, a feature lacking in some lighter editors. See More

Top Pro

Cordova support

Cordova allows for building native mobile applications via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. See More

Top Pro

Webpack support

Assists with configuration and understands module resolution. See More

Top Pro

Auto sync settings across team / machines / platforms

With the settings repository, you can easily enforce your development standards. See More

Top Pro

Coffeescript support

Autocompletion, syntax-highlighting. See More

Top Pro

Dart language support

Autocompletion, syntax-highlighting, refactoring, and pub integration for Dart are supported in WebStorm. See More

Top Pro

Different configurations for different projects

It is able to specify for example node versions, which will be used to run task for current project. See More

Top Pro

Gulp support

Top Pro

Low memory use

It may seem like a complex IDE and it does have a lot of functionality, yet it uses way less RAM than barebones-looking, Electron-based IDEs. See More

Top Pro

Efficient and effective

Specs

Notepad++ has built-in support for syntax highlighting for a wide selection of programming languages. See More

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Notepad++

Top Pro

Syntax highlighting for a wide variety of languages

Top Con

Windows-only

While it can run in Wine, it is native only to Windows. See More

Top Pro

Light and fast

Notepad++ is a very light program that starts almost instantly. This makes it a great text editor for users that want something that will start the second they open it. See More

Top Con

Outdated UI

Only the text area can be themed, and it doesn't have as many features as browser-based text areas. See More

Top Pro

Extendable via plugins

A list of hundreds of plugins is maintained. See More

Top Con

User defined language doesn't support triple quote strings

It also doesn't support triple hashed comments. Both styles are overridden by their single character single line version. See More

Top Pro

Portable

You can get a portable version of N++ and put it on a flash drive or your dropbox account and have your editor, configured the way you like, at any computer that you are on. See More

Top Con

Limited new syntax support for new languages

It may be hard to find good plugins for relatively new languages. See More

Top Pro

Free under GPL

Notepad++ is licensed under GPL, which means it is free/open source software that you can use freely. See More

Top Con

Session backups not enabled by default

Unsaved tabs will be lost when Npp crashes, unless you first enable the session backup option. See More

Top Pro

Regex replace in selection, active tab, or all tabs

In Notepad++, the user can utilise regular expressions to quickly modify text across multiple files. See More

Top Con

Annoying update notifications upon start-up

Annoying update notifications tend to pop up upon start-up after not having used the app or machine for a few days. At the same time, they can be easily turned off. See More

Top Pro

Multi-line editing

While it is disabled by default, when enabled, it is possible to edit more than one line at a time. This is helpful in many situations. See More

Top Pro

Split screen

The user can open and edit files in multiple screens within the editor window. See More

Top Pro

Persistent documents, even after exiting the application

If you close Notepad++ (npp), your documents remain even if you haven't saved. See More

Top Pro

User defined language syntax support

You can define your own custom syntax highlighting rules (or add support for others) . See More

Top Pro

Easy to use and admin

Very easy to use and personalize See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

License:GPL

Bracket Matching:Yes

Collaborative editing:plug-in

NeoVim was a complete rewrite of Vim, with new features added and underlying issues resolved thanks to the Vim code base. The keybindings and configuration are the same as Vim, so the switch can be pretty simple. See More

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Neovim

Top Pro

Still Vim but with upgraded features and some issues fixed

Top Con

Limited cross platform support

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

Top Pro

Better integration with external tools

The core text editor is "headless", meaning it's detached from the user-interface so other programs can hook into it. This enables better integration with IDEs and browsers, where "Vim mode" has typically been a poor substitute because it was a partial rewrite or a partial port at best. One of the advantages of Vim has always been ubiquity and Neovim makes it even more ubiquitous. See More

Top Con

Ambiguity in extensive documentation

Top Pro

Powerful plugin model

Vim plugins have always been useful, but tied to specific languages. Neovim's architecture provides better separation between plugins and the core product, so that plugins are completely flexible and can be written in any language. See More

Top Con

No graphical editor yet

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

Top Pro

Modern code base

As a refactor over Vim, Neovim has greatly improved its code base. For example, some functionality is handled by libuv, the same code base that powers Node.js. See More

Top Con

No stable release yet

As of yet, Neovim is in an unstable point in it's development. There is no stable release and using it for the moment should be done with caution as many features may change in the future. See More

Top Pro

Built-in terminal emulator

This avoids the user having to make any installations. See More

Top Con

Why clone Vim

You can use Vim and plugins. See More

Top Pro

UI Agnostic

The core functionality is handled apart from the UI, meaning that Neovim can be embedded into any other GUI system, such as Atom. See More

Top Pro

Comes with some good configurations out of the box

Some typical configurations most of VIM users make are default in Neovim. See More

Top Pro

Async plugin execution

Top Pro

Active development community

Top Pro

Opens a 3Gig Text File in a few seconds

Not many editors can open such a large text file so quickly. See More

Top Pro

Terminal mode is very convenient for testing code in a split window.

Specs

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

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NetBeans IDE

Top Pro

Cross-platform

NetBeans is a free, GPL-licensed IDE. It can run on any computer with a Java virtual machine. If a computer has a Java virtual machine (JVM), Netbeans can run on it. Netbeans can, therefore, run on a variety of operating systems such as Windows, *nix, and Mac OS. See More

Top Con

Little support for UML

Unless you load extensions. See More

Top Pro

Fantastic Maven support

NetBeans has out-of-the-box support for Maven (NetBeans 6.7 and newer), which includes a repository browser. See More

Top Con

Slow

The Netbeans IDE is known to take a large memory as compared to other lighter IDE's available on the market. The slowdown can decrease productivity and frustrate programmers. See More

Top Pro

Multiple revision control system integration

Top Pro

Good refactoring

Top Pro

Good support for integrated Database e Servers (E.g. Tomcat)

Top Pro

Easy to learn

Very easy to learn, unlike e.g. Eclipse (which is probably the most flexible). See More