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What are the best open-source IDEs?

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Best open-source IDEs	Price	Platforms	License
-- IntelliJ IDEA	Free / paid	Windows, Linux, Mac	-
-- Visual Studio Code	FREE	Windows, macOS, Linux	MIT, Proprietary (official builds)
-- CodeLite	-	Windows, Linux, Mac	GPL
-- Eclipse	Free	Cross Platform	MIT
-- Vscodium	FREE	Windows, Linux, Mac	-

IntelliJ IDEA

Top Pro

Built-in Git support

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Clear and detailed documentation

The documentation is exhaustive, easy to navigate, and clearly worded. See More

Top Pro

Many convenient features

These simplify the daily work, e.g. copy/cut a whole line without the need to select it. See More

Top Pro

Android support, JavaEE support, etc

A very complete development environment support. See More

Top Pro

Free version available

There is a free community edition (open source) and an ultimate edition, which you can compare here. The ultimate edition is available for free for one year for students but must be registered through an .edu e-mail account. See More

Top Pro

Very powerful debugger

With ability to step into a certain part of a large method invocation (Shift+F7), drop frame, executing code snippets, showing method return values, etc. See More

Top Pro

Support for many languages

IntelliJ supports many languages besides Java, some of these are: Rust, Go, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Bash, etc. See More

Top Pro

Stable and robust

IntelliJ IDEA hardly ever crashes or has any issues that plague other Java IDEs like file corruption or slowness. See More

Top Pro

Smart refactorings

IDEA places an emphasis in safe refactoring, offering a variety of features to make this possible for a variety of languages. These features include safe delete, type migration and replacing method code duplicates. See More

Top Pro

Lots of plugins

Many plugins are available for almost any task a developer may need to cover. Plugins are developed by Jetbrains themselves or by 3rd parties through the SDK available for writing them. See More

Top Pro

Gradle support

Visual Studio Code

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

License:MIT, Proprietary (official builds)

Multi Language Support:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

Top Pro

Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript. See More

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 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 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 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 Pro

Integrated debugging

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

Top 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. 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 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 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

Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License. See More

Top Pro

Great performance

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

CodeLite

Top Pro

Cross platform

Works on Windows, OS-X and Linux. See More

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Open source and free

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

Top Pro

A lot of useful plugins

CppCheck, DiffTool, Git, MemCheck (Valgrind support, Linux-only), SVN, and many other plugins extend the IDE functionality greatly! See More

Top Pro

Intelligent code completion

Top Pro

Rapid development cycle

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

Top Pro

Modest memory footprint

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

Top Pro

Easy to find installed compilers

The search for the installed compilers is quick, and it usually yields useful results on the very first atempt. See More

Top Pro

File Explorer-like workspace view

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

Eclipse

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 Con

Plugins can be unstable

Though there are plenty of plugins to choose from, they aren't always reliable. Some aren't maintained, bug fixes can be slow, and you may need to download plugins from multiple sources. See More

Specs

Platforms:Cross Platform

Multi Language Support:yes

Auto Complete:yes

Top Pro

Large selection of plugins

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

Top Con

Some old bugs don't get fixed

E.g. change a parameter name to the same as a field - the field will not be prefixed with "this." like in IDEA. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable

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

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. See More

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

Top Pro

Free and open source

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

Top Pro

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

Multiple languages - one IDE

Top Pro

Good refactoring tools

Top Pro

Great debugger

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

Pluto.jl

Top Pro

Interactive

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