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What are the best development IDEs?

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Oct 12, 2023

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10 Options Considered

Best development IDEs	Price	Platforms	License
-- Spacemacs	-	Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD	GPL-3.0-or-later
-- Visual Studio	Free / paid	Windows, Mac & Linux	-
-- IntelliJ IDEA	Free / paid	Windows, Linux, Mac	-
-- Eclipse	Free	Cross Platform	MIT
-- NetBeans	-	Windows, macOS, Linux	-

Spacemacs

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 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

TruthfulAequitas's Experience

Support basic IDE experience for an anourmous amount of languages. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD

License:GPL-3.0-or-later

Top Pro

Can work in terminal mode

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

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

MPR's Experience

Productivity focused is all I need. 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

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 Pro

Cross-platform

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

Combines the best parts of Vi and Emacs

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

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 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

Community-driven configuration

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

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

LaTeX support

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

Top Pro

Daemon support

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

Top Pro

Easily extended with community plugins

Top Pro

Manage R files easily

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

Fast-paced development

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

Top Pro

Great CFEngine support

Syntax highlighting and org-babel extensions. 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

Works well with Common Lisp

Top Pro

Manage many code bases easily

Top Pro

Great Clojure support

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

Excellent support for Elixir programming language

Elixir layer which uses the Alchemist package is the best way to edit Elixir code out there. See More

Visual Studio

Top Con

No Linux version

Top Pro

Supported by ReSharper and other plugins

Code productivity tools improve code editing experience greatly, provide static code analysis, refactorings, navigation etc. They are considered by many developers as essential. See More

MPR's Experience

Officially the best IDE in the world See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac & Linux

Bracket Matching:yes

Integrated Debugger:yes

Top Con

Professional pricing is a bit steep

The professional edition's pricing is endearing since it costs more than IntelliJ, however, you wouldn't need that if you're not developing for a enterprise. See More

Top Pro

Amazing coverage over languages

Supports many types of C, as well as ruby and python. See More

Top Con

Slow & buggy (on Mac)

Visual Studio can get very slow on Mac... this is partly due to bad UI framework used - GTK. Also, quite buggy and too often have to force quit and restart. See More

Top Pro

Good support and community

Top Pro

Flexible to install/adjust payloads

Top Pro

Excellent and broad range of plugins

The plugin development ecosystem is very mature and covers a lot of use cases. For example, it is often easy to find a plugin which allows you to have the keybindings of your preferred editor. See More

Top Pro

Official IDE developed by Microsoft

If a project type or a platform is available for C#, it's available in Visual Studio. Some IDEs and code editors may cover some project types, but Microsoft always starts with VS. If you work with a cross-platform technology like ASP.NET MVC, it matters less. If you work with Windows-only technologies like UWP or WPF, you have no choice really. See More

Top Pro

Fast-paced development iteration

Fast-paced development iteration from the Microsoft team, with new versions and fixes almost every week. See More

Top Pro

Partial cross-platform support

Visual Studio runs on Windows and macOS, so even if you develop on a Mac you can still develop with Visual Studio. See More

Top Pro

Time travel in debugging

Top Pro

It can run c#, c++, etc.

You can use too many programming lang. And you can select them! Like "I want to do this, not this". See More

Top Pro

Fast

Top Pro

Free Community edition

Community edition is almost Pro edition, with just a few exceptions. Unlike old Express editions, it supports plugins. See More

Top Pro

Cloud storage

Your Visual Studio Online account gives you a place to store your code, backlog, and other project data with no servers to deploy, configure, or manage. See More

Top Pro

Product backlog

In agile development teams one really needs features such as product backlogs where you can assign features to team mates and track their progress on them. VS provides a web based interface for you to track your team's complete progress on the project. See More

IntelliJ IDEA

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 Con

Somewhat expensive

IntelliJ IDEA is fairly expensive, with a pricetag of $149/year. However there is a free community edition available. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Support for many languages

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

Top Con

VCS – log view – hard to use

Not clear UI. 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 Con

Version controlling configuration is painful

They have a mess of random XML files without much documentation. Also, sometimes these files change all the time (mixing state such as window sizes and configuration) which makes it difficult to version control them. They haven't been all receptive to suggestions to improve the situation. For example see: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-154157 (improve docs) https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-184637 (improve workspace settings) However, they are working on not saving useless system defaults into the user's configuration file: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-128660 See More

Top Pro

Stable and robust

Nothing like Eclipse, you don't have to restart projects from start just because they were corrupted by the IDE! Also loads much faster than Eclipse. See More

Top Con

Uses a lot of RAM

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 Con

Bugs not solved

They are more interested in adding new features or issuing new versions than solving bugs. See More

Top Pro

Intuitive and slick UI

IDEA has a clean, intuitive interface with some customization available (such as the Darcula theme). See More

Top Con

Cannot open multiple projects in the same window

Top Pro

Android support, JavaEE support, ...

A very complete development environment support. See More

Top Con

«standard» hotkeys behave differently

Seems like hotkeys assignment in Idea have no logical consistency. Like «F3» is usually next match, «Ctrl+W» - close tab, etc — they map to some different action by default. There is a good effort in making the IDE friendly for immigrants from other products: there are options to use hotkeys from Eclipse, and even emacs. But these mappings are very incomplete. And help pages do not take this remapping into account, rather mentioning the standard hotkeys. So, immigrants are doomed to using mouse and context menus (which are rather big and complex). 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 Con

Built with closed source components

The version with full features is not opensource. Parts of the code are under apache licence though. See More

Top Pro

Fast and smart contextual assistance

Uses a fast indexing technique to provide contextual hints (auto-completion, available object members, import suggestions). On-the-fly code analysis to detect errors and propose refactorization. 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

Built-in Git support

Top Pro

Gradle support

Top Pro

Buit-in Git support

Top Pro

Android support, JavaEE support, etc

A very complete development environment support. See More

Top Pro

Clear and detailed documentation

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

Eclipse

Top Pro

Free and open source

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

Top Con

Lack of plugins with good user interfaces

Many Eclipse plugins are extremely confusing, with UIs that are even less consistent than Eclipse itself. See More

Specs

Platforms:Cross Platform

Bracket Matching:yes

Multi Language Support:yes

Auto Complete:yes

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 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

Top Pro

Great debugger

Shows threads, concurrency locks, and conditional breakpoints. 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

Multiple languages - one IDE

Top Con

Poor language support via plugins

Eclipse supports other languages with a huge amount of plugins. Many languages have their own distribution, but multi-language is hard to exist in one project. Like Scala, there is no official support from Eclipse for this language. If Eclipse gets an update, languages such as these will not. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable

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

Good refactoring tools

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

Large selection of plugins

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

NetBeans

Top Pro

Grunt and Gulp Task Runner support

SuaveApkallu's Experience

I feel that NetBeans do things in less steps and needs less configuration than IntelliJ Idea, for example. IntelliJ Idea is a 'pain-in-the-*ss' when you want to develop quickly an application. Create project, create artifacts, configure Maven or Gradle... ufff! I prefer NetBeans really for small and medium projects. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Bracket Matching:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

Top Pro

JMeter benchmarking tool support

Top Pro

Linux terminal inside IDE

You can run Linux terminal inside the IDE. 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

PHPstan support

Supports static code analysis with phpstan See More

Top Pro

Supports Smarty

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

Top Pro

Supports Twig templates

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

Top Pro

Less and Sass Compiler support

Top Pro

Bower support

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

Best for PHP, HTML5 apps development

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

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

FTP/SFTP synchronization

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

Top Pro

Composer commands inside IDE

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

Top Pro

Frameworks support

Supports Symfony1, Symfony2,Yii2 & Zend frameworks. 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

Multiple revision control system integration

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

ApiGen and PHPDoc support

Supports documentation generation through ApiGen and PHPDoc. See More

Top Pro

Accelerated HTML5 development support

KDevelop

Top Pro

Excellent syntax highlighting

Kdevelop has very smart syntax and semantic syntax highlighting. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, BSD

AWS Cloud 9

Top Pro

Can be hosted on own server

Since Cloud9 is an open source project with source code available on GitHub, it can be run as a self-hosted solution on own hardware and behind a firewall as long as it's being used on non-commercial projects. See More

Top Con

Expensive

For more than one private workspace, the starting price is $19/month. See More

Top Pro

Desktop application is available

Prior to the Cloud9 core source code being released, an Alpha version of a desktop version can be built from the source which is based from NW.js. Instructions can be found here. See More

Top Con

Cannot run "chroot"

This breaks many developer tools like Docker and Bazel. This is the result of the fact that the hosted environment runs within Docker which limits access to this capability in order to prevent breaking out of the container. See More

Top Pro

Offline editing

By installing and running a client application that syncs the local file system and cloud storage Cloud9 can be run locally. Great alternative for situations when the Internet connection is unreliable. See More

Top Con

You need a credit card to sign up

You need a credit card to sign up for Cloud9, which is problematic for users in countries where credit cards are not the norm. They won't bill you (for the free account), but still require it. You can buy a VISA gift card and sign up with that. See More

Top Pro

Package manager

Similar to package managers for the desktop, Cloud9 also includes their own package manager, c9pm, which allows adding new software from a list of available utilities. Apt-get can be used in the project's workspace terminal to install/update/upgrade software. Composer, Bower or any other utilities of choice can be installed to manage dependencies and packages. See More

Top Pro

SSH Workspace

Allows you to connect directly to your external server via SSH. Modifying files directly on your server using a cloud based editor allows you to have the portability of the a cloud based workspace with the control of your own server (including complete DNS control). See More

Top Pro

Built-in image editor

Includes a very basic image preview and editing tool. See More

Top Pro

Terminal with root access

Cloud9 gives full terminal access to home directory. In their hosted Linux Ubuntu environment it has sudo powers. No UNIX commands have been blocked - npm, ifconfig, chmod, chown, tar, etc work. All commands can be accessed and any package can be installed. However, certain advanced features are inaccessible (one cannot run Docker within the terminal). And if the terminal is used when using Remote SSH feature it connects directly to the server and runs the commands on that server. See More

Top Pro

Debugging with breakpoints for NodeJS server side JavaScript

Breakpoints allow specifying a stopping points in the execution of the application. When these breakpoints are hit, the application will stop executing and give the ability to examine data such as local variables, run commands and control the execution flow of the application. See More

Top Pro

Support for most databases

In addition to launching a server to run code, Cloud9 will also host a database to develop against. Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQLite. See More

Top Pro

Ability to clone multiple repos in one project

Cloud9 provides one free private workspace. However, I can host multiple projects there by cloning as many repositories into the root project directory, thanks to the full access terminal. See More

Top Pro

Runs any language

The runner has built-in functionality fo Apache, Node, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Go, CoffeeScript, Julia, Mocha and Shell script, but any other language can be used by creating a runner for it. See More

Top Pro

Git & Mercurial support

Git and hg commands can be run in the command-line, the same way as in a local terminal. There are also built-in add-on services for GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab. See More

Top Pro

Provides with a simple way to deploy apps

Cloud9 allows quickly deploying apps via CLI. There are instructions on how to deploy to Azure, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, NodeJitsu, Modulus and Heroku. For example, all hosted environments have Heroku's toolbelt installed by default so all heroku commands are available from the get-go. See More

Top Pro

Capable editor

Cloud9 uses their own editor called ACE. Besides the basics, it covers most important advanced code editor features such as code folding, converting cases, auto-completion, code analysis and refactoring, regex search and offers easy access to relevant documentation. It also gives access to the CLI, has support for Vim and Emacs keybindings, includes multiple cursors and zen coding mode that removes all distractions and allows focusing on code. See More

Top Pro

Provides with own runtime environment

Cloud9 can connect to a dedicated VM to provide a powerful Ubuntu runtime environment in the cloud using Docker. Apps can be either run from the run panel where a selection of runners is provided or from a terminal. See More

Top Pro

Great documentation

Cloud9 has extensive, well-organized documentation at docs.c9.io. See More

Top Pro

Bitbucket integration

You can launch into C9 directly from the Bitbucket UI via a plugin available on Bitbucket. If you set up your Git repo for a project in Bitbucket and open it in C9 you can push to Git via the CLI from the start. See More

Top Pro

Enables real-time online collaboration

An important feature of Cloud9 is the real-time collaboration ability. It allows pairing programs or perform code reviews really easily as well as simultaneously text chat. See More

Top Pro

Browser testing support

Cloud9 integrates with Sauce Labs a browser testing suite that allows previewing the app in any desktop or mobile browser. See More

Codenvy

Top Pro

Complete build lifecycle

The IDE allows validating, compiling, testing, packaging and deploying. Application modules & APIs can be created and published. 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

Specs

Platforms:Browser-Based

Bracket Matching:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

Top Pro

Ease of use cloud IDE

One of the few good options out there for those who want to write and test applications in the cloud. Easy to setup, and easy to use. The interface is clean and works well on larger or smaller screens. It is easy to get an application up and running in no time. See More

Top Con

No IE support

Does not support Internet Explorer and no official plans have been publicly announced for its addition. 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 Con

Lacks Mercurial support

Currently the Codenvy supports Git and SVN Version Control Systems. There are no plans announced for Mercurial. See More

Top Pro

Partly open source

Codenvy is a full multi-user, multi-account, multi-tenant implementation of [Eclipse Che](https://github.com/eclipse/che/_ which is open source but only single-user/account/tenant. Codenvy open source projects can be viewed on GitHub. 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

Nice interface

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

Top Con

Non free/libre

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

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

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 Con

No custom keyboard shortcuts

No possibility to create custom keyboard shortcuts. See More

Top Pro

Lots of built-in templates

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

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

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

Beginner-friendly

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

Top Pro

SSH Access

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

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 Pro

Can be used for Android development

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

Top Pro

Quick support from staff

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

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

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

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

Top Pro

Has a fully functional free tier

Codenvy provides a fully functional free tier with 4 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 Pro

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

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

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

Includes Subversion support

Codenvy includes full subversion version control support. See More

Top Pro

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

Provides Java debugger

Top Pro

One-click automation

Visual Studio Code

Top Pro

Huge community behind it

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Bracket Matching:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

Top Pro

Integrated debugging

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

Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License. See More

Top Con

Slow launch time

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

JavaScript IntelliSense support

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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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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Python support

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

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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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Great performance

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

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