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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Eclipse IDE

Sublime Text Visual Studio Code Vim Brackets Netbeans GNU Emacs Textmate Aptana Studio CodeSandbox MacDown

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Eclipse IDE are Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, and Vim. 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. 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.
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    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions

  2. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
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    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions

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    Vim

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

    #Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions

  4. A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
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    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions

  5. 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.
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    • Open Source

    #IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions

  6. GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
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    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Online playground for React
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    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Programming #Code Collaboration 300 social mentions

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    MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 7 social mentions

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    Powerful, API-driven rich text editor
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    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #IDEs And Text Editors 29 social mentions

  12. Online VS Code Editor for Angular and React
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    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Programming #Programming Tools 98 social mentions

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