Top 7 Open-Source Alternatives to Greenfoot

Greenfoot

Greenfoot is an interactive Java development environment designed primarily for educational purposes at the high school and undergraduate level.

Product categories

Developer Tools Dynamic Programming Language Generic Programming Language IDE IDEs And Text Editors OOP Programming Programming Language Programming Tools Software Development Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Greenfoot are Visual Studio Code, Netbeans, and Geany. 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.

Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1021 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
2

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
Geany Landing Page
3

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
Python Landing Page
4

Python

Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 281 social mentions
Gitpod Landing Page
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Gitpod

One click dev environment for GitHub
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming #IDE #Text Editors 72 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
6

Vim

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