Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to BlueJ

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to BlueJ are Netbeans, Aptana Studio, and Visual Studio Code. 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.

Netbeans Landing Page
1

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
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
Aptana Studio Landing Page
2

Aptana Studio

The world’s most powerful open-source web development IDE just got better. Rebuilt from the ground-up. It's now much faster, customizable and includes new features to help you be more productive.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
3

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
4

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
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
5

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
CLion Landing Page
6

CLion

A cross-platform IDE for C and C++
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development
Notepad++ Landing Page
7

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
MonoDevelop Landing Page
8

MonoDevelop

MonoDevelop enables developers to write desktop and web applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development
Brackets Landing Page
9

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
CodeLite Landing Page
10

CodeLite

CodeLite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++/PHP and Node.js programming languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 8 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
11

Textmate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 14 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
12

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions