What are the best editors/IDEs for Rust?

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IntelliJ Rust vs Visual Studio Code vs Neovim

vs Emacs vs Geany vs micro vs CLion vs IntelliJ IDEA + intellij-rust vs Kate vs Gnome Builder vs Spacemacs vs VIM/Rust.vim vs Helix Editor vs Eclipse/Corrosion vs Sublime Text + R-Box

Specs

Platforms

License

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

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Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux

License

MIT, Proprietary (official builds)

Auto Complete

Yes

Bracket Matching

Yes

Extension language

JavaScript

Multi Language Support

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Git

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

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Platforms

Linux, Windows, macOS, *nix, Android

License

Apache

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Yes

Extension language

Any

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

scp, ftp

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Yes

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

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Platforms

Unix-like, macOS, Windows, Cygwin

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Auto Complete

Yes

Bracket Matching

Yes

Extension language

Emacs Lisp, C(Emacs modules)

Multi Language Support

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes (package)

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Package, built-in

Supported remote file editing protocols

FTP; HTTP; SSH; WebDAV

Supported keybinding styles

IBM CUA; OSX; Vi; Emacs; Pico; WordStar; WordPerfect; Brief

Column selection

Yes

Collaborative editing

Yes

RTL

Yes

Bidi

Yes

Refactoring

Yes

Interactive Console

Yes

Interactive Debugger

gdb (for C)

Go to Definition

Yes

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux

License

GPL-2.0-only

Auto Complete

Yes

Bracket Matching

Yes

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Yes

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Via Plugin

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

None

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

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Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD

License

MIT

Auto Complete

Yes

Bracket Matching

Yes

Extension language

Lua

Multi Language Support

Yes

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

IBM CUA, flexible..

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Mac

License

Proprietary

Auto Complete

Yes

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

License

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD

License

LGPL-2.0-or-later, MIT

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Yes

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

License

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

GNU/Linux, MacOS, Windows

License

GPL3

Auto Complete

Yes

Bracket Matching

Yes

Extension language

Emacs Lisp

Multi Language Support

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Yes

Supported keybinding styles

Emacs, Vim, CUA

Column selection

Yes

Collaborative editing

Yes

RTL

Bidi

Yes

Refactoring

Yes

Interactive Console

Yes

Interactive Debugger

Yes

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Yes

Export

Yes

Preview

Yes

Go To Definition

Yes

Platforms

License

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

License

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

License

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Platforms

License

Auto Complete

Bracket Matching

Extension language

Multi Language Support

Error Markup

Source Control Integration

Integrated Debugger

Code Templates

Plugin Manager

Supported remote file editing protocols

Supported keybinding styles

Column selection

Collaborative editing

RTL

Bidi

Refactoring

Interactive Console

Interactive Debugger

Go to Definition

Unit Testing

Export

Preview

Go To Definition

Pros + Cons

Pro
Full power of IDEA engine

This plugin uses big part of Intellij IDEA features, including advanced code analysis and refactoring.

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Con
Debugger requires paid CLion / IDEA Ultimate

Debugger still won't work without IDE that includes native debugger support. The only known is proprietary and paid CLion or IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate with the native debugger plugin.

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Pro
Many users

Has more users than the average plugin.

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Con
Intellij Rust being replaced by paid for IDE

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Pro
The best VI shortcut plugin

For those that favor VI shortcuts, you can do nearly everything in IntelliJ that you would do in a VIM editor. Almost no conflicts out of the box, and those that are in conflict are easily resolved.

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Pro
Built-in user friendly terminal

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Con
Why would you pay for it if there is VSCode

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Con
Too many issues (currently, in May 2022)

The plugin mostly works but it has a staggering number of issues (1400+ reported as of today). Therefore it should not be used if tool stability is an issue.

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Pro
Nearly 100% of Rust code is interpretted by the IDE

The ability to trace variable definitions and references from within closures as well as understand smart pointers and macro code makes it the smoothest interface for writing Rust.

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Con
Does not parse macros correctly

It seems that autocomplete does not work for macros at all.

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Pro
Extendable through plugins

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

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Pro
Rust support

For cross platform Rust development it is the gold standard.

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Pro
Integrated terminal

There's no need to press alt+tab to go to a terminal: it is directly integrated into the editor.

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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.

Comment

Pro
Embedded Git control

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

Comment

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)

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Pro
Huge community behind it

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

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Pro
Closed Source

Don'y you love it when companies release proprietary software?

Comment

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.

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Con
You spend more time on configurations, installations, weird issues than on actual development

Notepad is better code editor than this.

Comment

Pro
Python support

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

Comment

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.

Comment

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.

Comment

Pro
High fidelity C# plugin

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

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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.

Comment

Con
It is not user friendly

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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.

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Pro
Integrated task runners

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

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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.

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Con
It is very slow and hardly support remote work

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Con
It is hard to adjust

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Con
Poor error fix suggestions

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

Comment

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.

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Pro
Good support for new Emmet syntax

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Pro
Support RTL languages

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

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Pro
JS typechecking

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

Comment

Pro
Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript.

Comment

Pro
It has gotten really good

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

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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.

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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.

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Pro
Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License.

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Con
Technically proprietary build

Even if the source code is released under MIT (Code - OSS/VSCodium), this build that Microsoft makes (VSCode) is under a EULA.

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Con
Weird License

Microsoft says VSCode is under the MIT license, but they add a layer of telemetry to all packaged versions.

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Con
It is not user friendly

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Pro
Great performance

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

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Con
Slow launch time

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

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Con
It doesn't look like IDE more like text editor with plugins

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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.

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Con
It is written on JS and it cosumes a lot of memory for such small app

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Con
Very bad auto import

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Con
Emmet plugin often fails on even simple p tags

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Con
Project search limits results

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

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Con
Have no good default js style analyzer

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

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Pro
Integrated debugging

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

Comment

Pro
JavaScript IntelliSense support

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

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Con
VSCode is spyware

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Con
Is not an IDE, is a text editor

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Pro
Extendable through plug-ins

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

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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.

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Pro
Highly customizable

Absolutely everything can be customized

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Pro
Active development community

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Pro
Fast and light on memory usage

New neovim editor instance starts instantly and you can have multiple editors open at the same time, because id does not require a lot of memory to run.

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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.

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Pro
Work in TUI (Tex User Interface)

Neovim can work on terminal, on a remote server over ssh.

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Pro
Treesitter and LSP

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Pro
To infinity and beyond

Much like the editor that spawned it, nvim is packed to the brim with features you may not know about, even after months/years of daily using it. After close to a decade of daily-driving (n)vim, I'm still surprised on occasion why I've been relying on a silly plugin to do something that was a built-in feature all along.

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Pro
Even more powerful since 2019, because of additions such as vim-coc, TabNine, fzf, skim

Vim gets stronger every time command-line tools get stronger. This isn't even it's the final form.

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Con
Consumes brain energy for editing that should be used for logic

Text editing in vim can be great once you've learned it, 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.

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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.

Comment

Pro
Built-in terminal emulator

This avoids the user having to make any installations.

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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.

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Pro
Async plugin execution

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Pro
Config file is where it should be

I don't like having dotfiles or dotdirs in my homefolder unless they're needed. Configs should be in the .config dir in their respective folder.

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Pro
Built-in file-explorer and ability to make splits and edit multiple things simutaneously.

This makes editing multiple files at once, moving code around so easy.

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Pro
Work in TUI (Text User Interface)

Neovim can work on terminal, on a remote server over ssh.

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Pro
Easier to pick-up than ever

Don't believe it? Try typing vimtutor in your command line right now.

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Pro
Opens a 3Gig Text File in a few seconds

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

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Pro
Comes with some good configurations out of the box

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

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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.

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Pro
Still Vim but with upgraded features and some issues fixed

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.

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Con
Limited cross platform support

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

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Con
No graphical editor yet

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

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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.

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Pro
Plugin to interact with racer

This enables navigating rust projects and is used to supply the rust language server with code/path completion. The language server can then be used by intellisense engines such as coc.nvim to do incremental, insert-mode pattern completion.

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Pro
Free

Licensed under GNU GPL.

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Pro
Keyboard-focused, mouse-free editing

Emacs can be controlled entirely with the keyboard.

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Pro
Total customizability

Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza).

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Pro
Enormous range of functionalities (way beyond simple "text editing")

Through its programmability, a very broad range of functionalities can be integrated in emacs, turning it even into a "single point of contact" with the underlying operating system.

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Pro
It's also an IDE

You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed.

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Pro
Provides org-mode

Advanced planning and publication which can start as a simple list.

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Pro
Great documentation

With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties.

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Pro
Works in terminal or as a GUI application

You can use Emacs' command line interface or graphical user interface.

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Pro
best

the best

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Pro
Integrates planning in your development process

You can jump straight from your org-mode files to programming tasks - and back - and build a seamless workflow.

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Pro
Cross-platform

Works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, BSD, and others.

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Pro
Vi keybindings through Evil mode

Evil mode emulates vim behaviors within Emacs. It enables Vi users to move inside the Emacs universe.

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Pro
Excellent Lisp editing support

Built-in packages make editing Lisp source code feel natural.

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Pro
Completely customizable

Customize every corer of it using the config file.

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Pro
Racer Integration

https://github.com/phildawes/racer

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Pro
Self documenting

Emacs has extensive help support built-in as well as a tutorial accessed with C-h t.

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Con
Learning curve is long

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

Comment

Pro
dabbrev-expand (Alt-/)

Dynamic word completion.

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Pro
Helm plugin adds even more power to Emacs

Powerful commands, search, and more with the Helm plugin.

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Pro
Excelent tutorial to get you started

The tutorial you are presented with at startup shows you exactly what you need to get started and teaches you how to use the built-in help yourself later.

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Pro
Customisation with Emacs Lisp

(Almost) everything is implemented in Emacs Lisp. You are the limit when it comes to changing or adding new functions to emacs.

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Pro
Interactive shells

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

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Con
Chorded keyboard combinations can be baffling

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

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Pro
Rectangular cut and paste

Emacs can select rectangularly.

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Pro
Visual selection and text objects with Evil

Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It provides Vim features like Visual selection and text objects.

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Pro
Versatile

Emacs is great for everything.

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Not yet well-multithreaded

Modern LSP (external language servers for syntax checking and completion) are heavy and require good multithreading from IDE. Emacs was developed without much of it. Though new version with fixes is about to release.

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Con
Takes a lot of effort to configure to fit your needs

It definitely can be configured (and even programmed) according to anyone's habits, needs and preferences. For example, imagine a text editor which can handle typesetting and displaying English, Russian, Japanese and Sanskrit text, supporting LaTeX publishing workflow, Common Lisp development workflow, Javascript development workflow, writing down thoughts and to-do tasks and also having a full-featured command line. But you will have to configure/program it, and it'll in no way be either fast or pleasurable.

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Pro
Interactive shells

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

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Pro
Has been widely used for a long time

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Pro
Eshell is cross-platform

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Pro
Gnus

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

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GTK+ widgets support

Since version 25 you can run GTK widgets inside Emacs buffers. One of these is the WebKitGTK+, which allows the user to run a full-featured web browser inside Emacs with JavaScript and CSS support among other things.

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Pro
Lisp customizations

With lisp customization, any behavior of Emacs can be changed. Update with pre-release patch can be also applied without recompiling the whole Emacs.

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Pro
(Almost) everything is implemented in Emacs Lisp

You are the limit.

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Pro
Support multi-line editing, multiple frame, powerful paren, crazy jumping style

Review the "Emacs Rocks" video.

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Pro
Ubiquity

Fully compliant GNU-emacs is available on many platforms, and they all understand .emacs configuration files.

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Pro
Mini buffer

You can pass complicated arguments in the mini buffer.

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Pro
eshell is cross platform

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Sometimes the extensibility can distract you from your actual work

Tweaking your .spacemacs config file can take half a day.

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Pro
It's emacs

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Pro
Cross platform

Geany is a cross platform editor, very similar to Notepad++ in Windows.

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Pro
Light and fast

Geany is very lightweight thanks to the smaller offering of features.

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Pro
Native

It is a real app and not another frankenstein web/electron app. This means it runs great and doesn't extraordinary amounts of RAM.

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Pro
Quick search on large files

In Geany you technically search once for a whole search query, unlike Gedit, where once you start typing, the file is searched for in accordance with each substring of what you're typing, all the while leading to terribly annoying lag.

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Pro
Real syntax parsing (not just coloring)

Hence it is capable of showing the methods and inner classes of, e.g., a Java source file.

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Pro
Simple project management

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Lacks Refactoring

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Lacks a debugger

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Con
Not very advanced

Similar to Notepad or Gedit.

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Pro
Built-in terminal

Press F5 and code will run without the need to switch between windows.

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Con
Not many third-party plugins

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

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Pro
Works on all large platforms

Micro runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

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Pro
Easy to install and use

Micro has no dependencies and doesn't require any external files to run.

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Pro
Comes out of the box with about a hundred different languages supported for highlighting.

Many different languages will be highlighted out of the box, but none will be auto-completed.

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Runs in terminal

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Very lightweight and fast.

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Runs in Terminal

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Con
No autocompletion

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Proprietary

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

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Pro
Works out of box

No need to spend hours (days) on finding plugins.

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Cross platform

Clion works on Windows, Linux and OSX.

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Intelligent code completion

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

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Free for students

All of the JetBrains developer tools are free for students. This includes CLion and IntelliJ Ultimate.

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Project mode

Kate allows you to make projects to simplify the organisation of your code. This brings in additional organization of an IDE without the overhead.

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Integrated terminal

Has a terminal that can sync to the location of your document, letting you compile or run your program quickly or run quick commands, all without leaving the editor.

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Syntax highlighting

Kate supports syntax highlighting for over 180 languages, from Assembler to Zsh.

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Vi entry mode

Kate has a vi entry mode.

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By far one of the best and lightest text editors

Notepads alternative (for the Windows users).

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Fast and minimaistic

Kate is pretty fast and lightweight. This helps it with it's start up speed.

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Edit over FTP, SSH, or other protocols

Kate uses KDE's input and output libraries to read and write files, allowing seamless integration with FTP, SMB, SFTP, and many other protocols.

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Support rust by default

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Integrated debugging

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Autocomplete

Fast autocomplete.

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No project management

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

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Great language support (for linux based projects)

Python, C, Java, Javascript, Go, Vala, C++, and many more.

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Integrates nicely into the GNOME Desktop Environment

Client-side decorations, good use of widgets.

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Templating

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

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Tiling Editor capability

Supports Tiling.

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Supports versioning (git)

Shows diff indication and has branch integration too.

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Terminal built in

Fully featured terminal is packaged.

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Not available for Windows yet

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Extendable through plugins

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Integrated system-wide profiler for improving software performance

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Lovely find and replace tool with great REGEX support

Shows a live feedback of what matches the pattern/criteria entered.

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Emacs is slow

Emacs is single threaded which means that if you enable all the great features you might be used to from Vim, it will run noticeably slower which can be quite frustrating at times. There are efforts at a concurrent Emacs, but they don't seem to be going anywhere.

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VIM Keybindings with EMACS ecosystem

EMACS ecosystem and language support is best in show. The EMACS is a great IDE that was in search of a good text editor. Spacemacs makes EMACS have a good text editor.

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Preconfigured emacs distro

Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive.

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Minimal hassle setting up

Very little configuration needed to get up and running with Helix.

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Best bindings

Helix is Kakoune inspired and it has the best key-bindings in a modal editor.

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R !== Rust

I mean come on..

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R !== Rust

I mean come on..

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