What are the best IDEs?

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

NetBeans

Top Pro

Free, open source, and cross-platform

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

FerventTelete's Experience

Best IDE right now, and I tested all you show here and much more. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Auto Complete:Yes

Bracket Matching:Yes

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

You can access source code history

Top Con

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

Sure, this is not a Swiss army knife for everything, but it is good for Java, Javascript, PHP, C and C++. See More

PositiveThoth's Experience

Cool, simple, straightforward, easy to learn and use. But mostly for JAVA, JAVAScript, PHP, C, C++ coding. 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 Con

Default website code format is too strict

Sometimes you need to write allowed code that IDE hasn't spected, and it will annoy you filling all your code with suggestions. See More

DignifiedIkuTurso's Experience

2 years with yii2 framework 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 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

SensibleElpis's Experience

Very complete and with support to many languages via plugins. See More

Top Pro

Multiple revision control system integration

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

Top Con

No code suggestions between " " (string between quotemarks)

For example, it doesn't show any snippets when typing a sql query into PHP code. See More

Top Pro

Git commits/local diff comparison is best

Git commits/local diff comparison is best See More

Top Con

No terminal for Windows

If it had a Windows terminal without installing CGI tools, it would be very convenient. See More

Top Pro

JUNIT integration

Easy way to create and run unit testing with J Unit. See More

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Gradle Integration

Includes very helpful ways to setup JAVA projects with Gradle. See More

Top Pro

Refactoring is easy and very productive

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Linux terminal inside IDE

You can run Linux terminal inside the IDE. See More

Top Pro

Lots of easy wizards

For setup, configuring projects and making several tasks. See More

Top Pro

FTP/SFTP synchronization

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

Top Pro

Support for remote development

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Easy and convenient keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts to write code are successful. These shortcuts can also be customized. See More

Top Pro

Best for PHP, HTML5 Apps Developemt

Great JavaScript support as well. See More

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Frameworks support

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

Top Pro

Less and Sass Compiler support

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Accelerated HTML5 development support

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Supports Smarty

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

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ApiGen and PHPDoc support

Supports documentation generation through ApiGen and PHPDoc. See More

Top Pro

Bower support

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Supports Twig templates

NetBeans provides code completion and documentation for all Twig elements. 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 Pro

Composer commands inside IDE

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

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

Vim

Top Pro

Once learned, it's very hard to forget

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

NeighborlyOrmenos's Experience

It's very nice in the real cases See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, macOS, Windows, Cygwin

Extension language:Vim

License:Vim License

Top Pro

Can set up keymapping

Top Con

High effort to customize

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

ReasonableBellona's Experience

it's everywhere, it's well thought keybindings, super productive, very extensible, easy to just copy your config around. Even if you prefer using a more modern IDE most of them have either first class support or a popular plugin to support vim keys. 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

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

Has been supported for a long time and will be supported for many years to come

Top Con

Difficult to copy, paste, and delete

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

By default in Linux

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

Amazing extensibility

Vimscript provides a rich scripting functionality to build upon the core of Vim. When combined with things like the Vundle Plgin manager, it become astonishingly easy to make it do what you want 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

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

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

Top Pro

Multiple clipboards

It is called "registers". See More

Top Con

Modal editing

Has a clean split between editing text (Insert Mode) and the other functions of the editor. 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

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

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 most of Vim's functionality accessible without frequent awkward finger reaches. See More

Top Con

Outdated UI

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

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

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 Pro

Free and open-source software

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

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 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 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

If you can use Vim you can also use vi

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

Vim encourages discipline

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

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

Atom

Top Pro

Free and open source

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

dyln mc's Experience

I think that atom is especially useful because of its use of electron, which allows it to be completely cross-platform. It used to be quite fast and has dubbed itself the "hackable text editor" for a reason; you can hack it and bend it to your will. You can also very easily integrate packages designed by other, who have "hacked" it. It's really easy to make your own key binding and see what keybindings exist, it has an extensive and easy-to-use settings page, it has a lot of support for themes, and it has been widely accepted by the public, allowing its plugin base to grow rapidly and with enthusiasm. The only problem I have noticed is that it tends to have a slow startup time and sometimes lags just a tiny bit. All in all, atom is a swell text editor to develop in, whether you're on Linux/BSD (+ GNU) or Windows or Os X, as it works the same (which is to say, it works spectacularly) in all of the major operating systems due to its use of electron. See More

Specs

Platforms:Microsoft Windows®, macOS, Linux

Extension language:JavaScript

License:MIT

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

Top Pro

Extensive list of packages

Top Con

Very long 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

이천호's Experience

Slowly See More

Top Pro

Themes

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

Top Con

It 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

whydoIneedanaccount's Experience

It has great extensions, VEX support, Python Hydrogen kernels, and works with everything. The themes are amazing and teletype works flawlessly. It also links to Github, meaning it's really easy to push and pull stuff. See More

Top Pro

It's 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 problems with find and replace in mid to large projects

Running a find and replace can run into a hard limit at 20 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 Pro

Modern feel and very customizable and extendable

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Nice dark mode

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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 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 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 Pro

Multiplatform

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

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 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 Pro

Could also used as an IDE

Atom qualifies to be a good IDE because of the packages like linters, atom browser and hydrogen See More

Top Pro

Best support for Arduino with Platformio

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

Top Pro

Vim plugin turns Atom into a modernized vim

Top Pro

HiDPI support

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

Command Palette support

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

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

Sublime Text

Top Pro

Very fast

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Extension language:Python

License:Proprietary

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 Pro

Beginner-friendly

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Highly Theme-able

Create your own theme with online editor. See More

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Portable settings

Settings are modular and can be shared. See More

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Multiple languages are supported

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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

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Installable package manager

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

Top Pro

Has tons of plugins available

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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 Pro

Lightweight

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

Brackets is entirely free and open source. See More

Brackets

Top Pro

Free, open source and cross-platform

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

Extension language:JavaScript

License:MIT

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

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

Top Pro

Support for Adobe PSD content

Top Con

Slow

Top Pro

Vim mode

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

Drag and drop support

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

Popup previews

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

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Lightweight

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

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Actively developed

Brackets is being actively maintained and developed. 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

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 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

By far the strongest and most user-friendly IDE See More

PhpStorm

TrustingDurius's Experience

Specs

Extension language:JVM

Auto Complete:Yes

Bracket Matching:Yes

With a university email, Rider can be obtained for free. See More

JetBrains Rider

Top Pro

Free for students

Top Con

Relatively young project

Some bugs are to be expected since it's still a relatively young project. See More

Top Pro

Excellent UI, Features beyond Visual Studio (File Layout just one example)

Top Con

Not free

Project Rider has a trial version available, but is not free. See More

Top Pro

Version control integration

Intellij plugins for Git, Mercurial, and TFS plus Local History of files. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

As well as running and debugging multiple runtimes, Project Rider itself runs on multiple platforms. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. See More

Top Pro

Fast performant

Rider has everything you want from a serious IDE, but without the bloat. This results in significantly fast performance in day to day operations. See More

Top Pro

Superior "quality of life" features

Extremely good at filling in all the mindless boilerplate type code while you stay productive. See More

PyCharm includes sophisticated heuristics for determining what each variable type is and providing autocompletion suggestions for them. See More

PyCharm Community Edition

Top Pro

Sophisticated autocompletion

Top Con

Memory-hungry

Can use a lot of memory (several GBs), especially when dealing with large projects. See More

PleasantPunga's Experience

very good See More

Top Pro

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

Julien Maria's Experience

Best IDE for Python: It has everything that you can expect for a modern IDE . I am particularly impressed by the and a very convenient way to add python package. Debugger is very impressive: it adds temporary debug information directly in the source code (and of course remove them as soon you stop it). See More

Top Pro

Python Package management

A very quick way to download and activate a python package quickly in your local environment. See More

Top Pro

Plugins

Pycharm has many good plugins. See More

Top Pro

Excellent debugger

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

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

Notepad++

Top Pro

Portable

Top Con

Windows-only

While it can run in Wine, it is native only to Windows. Linux users will have to use Notepadqq instead. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

Extension language:C/C++; any language able to interface with C code

License:GPL-3.0-or-later

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

Top Pro

Free under GPL

Top Pro

Syntax highlighting for a wide variety of languages

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

Eclipse has a large and active community, which has resulted in a wide variety of plugins. See More

Eclipse

Top Pro

Large selection of plugins

Top Con

UI can be confusing

There's an overly abundant presence of menus, this forces you to constantly click around the different menu structures; foreign ideas, like Views and Perspectives; strange menu choices, like configure settings located in Windows menu->Preferences. See More

Specs

Platforms:Cross Platform

Extension language:yes

License:MIT

Multi Language Support:yes

Thanks to the large variety of plugins and various configuration options, Eclipse is very customizable. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable

Top Con

Tends to be slow and lags a lot

Top Pro

Great debugger

Shows threads, concurrency locks, and conditional breakpoints. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Eclipse is an open source project and free to use. See More

Top Pro

Faster than any other Java IDE

Fast, suitable for big projects, customizable, supports UML, many programming languages, plugins, and widgets vs NetBeans and JDeveloper. Support for Workspaces and Perspectives. Long term tested, free of charge, vs IntelliJ IDEA. See More

Top Pro

Multiple languages - one IDE

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Fast compiler

Eclipse uses a custom compiler (which can also be used outside of Eclipse), which is often faster than the normal Java Compiler, especially for incremental compilation. See More

Top Pro

Good font rendering

Because Eclipse is based on SWT, it uses the native font rendering and thus looks better than other IDEs on some Linux systems, where the Java font rendering is not optimal. See More

Top Pro

Good refactoring tools

Top Pro

Gives good perspectives on your project

The concept of perspectives is outstanding. It puts right tools at your fingertips, keeping the tools you currently don't need out from the workbench. For example, in VCS perspective it's all about versions and branches. In debug perspective it's all about state. In java ee project it can show http endpoints in a very accessible manner. See More

VS Code woithout the Microsoft telemetry, great choice! See More

Vscodium

ReasonablePunga's Experience

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Top Pro

Best autocomplete for many popular languages

Codelobster IDE has best autocomplete for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and many other popular languages. See More

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Visual Studio Code

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

Slow launch time

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

Miguel Angelo Santos Bicudo's Experience

VSCode available plug-ins can do everything I want it to. I have had some successful experiences with it, including: C/C++, Python, TypeScript+React+WebPack+Node. By successful I mean: code completion, debugging, error detection. For C# I'm still with it's older brother, VS, though. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Extension language:JavaScript

License:MIT, Proprietary (official builds)

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

Top Pro

It has gotten really good

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

Sheiz Muhammed's Experience

best for web designer 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. 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

GloriousPeneus's Experience

it's an easier ide for begineers 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 Con

It's Micro$oft

Self-explanatory. See More

AmbitiousAsaruludu's Experience

Robust 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 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

Danilo Bitencourt's Experience

Is the best for JS applications 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 Con

Python is not well supported

CourteousMeretseger's Experience

fast See More

Top Pro

Great performance

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

Top Con

Often confused with Visual Studio

Visual Studio itself is even worse, and VSC keeps getting mixed up with VS, the other version of Microsoft's IDE (especially for C++) and makes this even worse. See More

Manish Joshi's Experience

Light weight , Covers almost every language, have enough Add ons for your productivity 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

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

IntellectualHermodr's Experience

AWESOME!!! 5 Stars :) 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

Very bad auto import

MeticulousEucleia's Experience

used it everyday for > 3 years 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

.sass linting is terrible

DiplomaticThelxiepeia's Experience

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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

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Not an IDE

It's still a text editor. See More

FearlessEreshkigal's Experience

Every month is more powerfull See More

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Integrated debugging

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

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Project search limits results

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

InsightfulEpona's Experience

Is good, it has intellisense, debugging and the terminal See More

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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

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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

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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

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Embedded Git control

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

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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

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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

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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

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Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License. See More

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Good support for new Emmet syntax

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JS typechecking

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

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Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript. See More

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High fidelity C# plugin

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

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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

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LiveShare -- good live editing

The LiveShare is impressive, you can edit real time as long as you connect it with GitHub. See More

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Support for RTL languages

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