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Top 9 Text Editors in Programming

The best Text Editors within the Programming category - based on our collection of reviews & verified products.

VS Code Sublime Text Atom CodePen Vim IntelliJ IDEA replit CodeSandbox Netbeans

Product categories

Coding Playground Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors Programming Programming Playground Programming Tools SQL Client Software Development Text Editors

Summary

The top products on this list are VS Code, Sublime Text, and Atom. All products here are categorized as: Software designed for writing and editing plain text, offering functionalities ranging from simple note-taking to complex code editing and document formatting. We recommend LibHunt for [discovery and comparisons of open-source projects](https://www.libhunt.com/). One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. VS Code Landing Page
    VS Code Landing Page
    1

    VS Code

    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 1176 social mentions

  2. Sublime Text Landing Page
    Sublime Text Landing Page
    2

    Sublime 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.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 3 social mentions

  3. Atom Landing Page
    Atom Landing Page
    3

    Atom

    NOTE: Atom has been discontinued.
    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.

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 152 social mentions

  4. CodePen Landing Page
    CodePen Landing Page
    4

    CodePen

    A front end web development playground.

    #Software Development #Text Editors #Programming 510 social mentions

  5. Vim Landing Page
    Vim Landing Page
    5

    Vim

    Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 10 social mentions

  6. IntelliJ IDEA Landing Page
    IntelliJ IDEA Landing Page
    6

    IntelliJ IDEA

    Capable and Ergonomic IDE for JVM

    #IDE #Text Editors #IDEs And Text Editors

  7. replit Landing Page
    replit Landing Page
    7

    replit

    Code, create, andlearn together. Use our free, collaborative, in-browser IDE to code in 50+ languages — without spending a second on setup.

    #IDE #IDEs And Text Editors #Programming 641 social mentions

  8. CodeSandbox Landing Page
    CodeSandbox Landing Page
    8

    CodeSandbox

    Online playground for React
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #Text Editors #Programming 310 social mentions

  9. Netbeans Landing Page
    Netbeans Landing Page
    9

    Netbeans

    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.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 17 social mentions

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