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Top 9 Text Editors in Software Development

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

VS Code Sublime Text Atom Microsoft Visual Studio Notepad++ Vim CodePen GitHub Xcode

Product categories

App Development Code Collaboration Developer Tools Git IDE IDEs And Text Editors Programming Programming Tools Software Development Text Editors VCS Version Control

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. Microsoft Visual Studio Landing Page
    Microsoft Visual Studio Landing Page
    4

    Microsoft Visual Studio

    Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft.

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 1 social mentions

  5. Notepad++ Landing Page
    Notepad++ Landing Page
    5

    Notepad++

    A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 176 social mentions

  6. Vim Landing Page
    Vim Landing Page
    6

    Vim

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

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 10 social mentions

  7. CodePen Landing Page
    CodePen Landing Page
    7

    CodePen

    A front end web development playground.

    #Software Development #Text Editors #Programming 510 social mentions

  8. GitHub Landing Page
    GitHub Landing Page
    8

    GitHub

    Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #Version Control #Git 2318 social mentions

  9. Xcode Landing Page
    Xcode Landing Page
    9

    Xcode

    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.

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 145 social mentions

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techrepublic.com // about 2 years ago

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