Top 30 Text Editors in Software Development Developer Tools
1Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
2Sublime TextSublime Text
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
3AtomAtom
At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.
4Microsoft Visual StudioMicrosoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft.
5VimVim
Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
6XcodeXcode
Xcode is Apple’s powerful integrated development environment for creating great apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 includes the Xcode IDE, instruments, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.
7EclipseEclipse
Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.
8NetbeansNetbeans
NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
9BracketsBrackets
A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
10NotepadNotepad
Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format.
11WebStormWebStorm
The smartest JavaScript IDE
12Qt CreatorQt Creator
Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML integrated development environment. It is the fastest, easiest and most fun experience a C++ developer could wish for.
13GNU EmacsGNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
14RubyMineRubyMine
Cross-platform IDE for productive Ruby & Rails development.
15TextmateTextmate
TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
16PhpStormPhpStorm
Professional IDE for PHP and Web Developers
17BBEditBBEdit
BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for Macintosh that provides features for editing, searching, and minipulation of text for web authors and software developers.
18Froala EditorFroala Editor
Froala Editor is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that enables rich text editing capabilities for the applications.
19RStudioRStudio
RStudio™ is a new integrated development environment (IDE) for R.
20Light TableLight Table
Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from...
21Code::BlocksCode::Blocks
Code::Blocks is a free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users.
22Eclipse IDEEclipse IDE
Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers.
23Arduino IDEArduino IDE
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware...
24KakouneKakoune
Vim inspired — Faster as in less keystrokes — Multiple selections — Orthogonal design
25SpacemacsSpacemacs
Community-driven Emacs distribution that meshes Emacs and Vim features.
26CodeLobster IDECodeLobster IDE
CodeLobster IDE is a smart free cross-platform IDE primarily intended for editing PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript files with special support Drupal, Joomla, JQuery, AngularJS, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Laravel, Magento, Symfony, Twig, Yii and WordPress
27CodeLiteCodeLite
CodeLite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++/PHP and Node.js programming languages.
28CLionCLion
A cross-platform IDE for C and C++
29TextPadTextPad
TextPad is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files that is easy to use, with all the features a power user requires.
30BlueJBlueJ
BlueJ is an Integrated Development Environment for Java, developed mainly for educational purposes...
