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Add to SafariWhen comparing TextMate vs CodeRunner, the Slant community recommends TextMate for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” TextMate is ranked 23rd while CodeRunner is ranked 26th. The most important reason people chose TextMate is:
Textmate is open source and hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/textmate/textmate).
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Pros
Pro Open source
Textmate is open source and hosted on GitHub.
Pro Extensible
TextMate has an extensive library of plugins which can be further extended to make it even more powerful.
Pro Lightweight footprint
It's lightweight footprint makes it extremely fast to load and use.
Pro Multi line select and editing
Pro Snippets
Pro OS X only (native)
Pro Fast and efficient
You can have multiple tabs open with multiple languages in at the same time and Code Runner still performs excellently. Searching through code is always instant and executing code is fast.
Pro Supports many different languages
Code Runner comes preinstalled with over 20 languages built in, and it's super easy to run simple programs.
Cons
Con OS X only
TextMate is for OSX only.
Con Working with very very large projects
Code runner is fantastic for shorter projects, although it can handle very large projects. It stops code completion when the program gets to be several thousands of lines long.
