Code Editors & IDEs Alternatives

Emacs is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor. It features content-aware editing modes, built-in documentation, Unicode support, and customization using Emacs Lisp code.

BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for Macintosh. It is crafted to serve the needs of Web and software developers. Great for coding!

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings with GUI, TextMate is the editor of choice.

Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE. It features syntax highlighting, code folding, dynamic word wrap, an embedded console, and extensive plugin support.

Geany is a lightweight IDE. It provides syntax highlighting, code completion, a build system, and project management features within a user-friendly interface.

Coda is a web development-focused text editor for macOS from Panic. It combines code editing, terminal access, and file management into a single interface.

GNU nano is an easy-to-use command line text editor for beginners. It emulates the Pico text editor from the University of Washington, and features interactive navigation.

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

A powerful IDE for JVM languages, known for its smart code completion and extensive plugin ecosystem. Ideal for enterprise development.

A lightweight but powerful source code editor with built-in support for many languages and a large extension ecosystem.

A sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and prose. Known for its speed, ease of use and powerful features.

A widely used open-source IDE, especially popular for Java development, offering a vast array of plugins and customization options.