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Microsoft Visual Studio

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

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio

Visual Studio Code Sublime Text Vim Netbeans Brackets GNU Emacs Textmate CodeLite CLion Xamarin

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, 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. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions

  2. 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

  3. 3

    Vim

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

    #Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions

  4. 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

  5. A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions

  6. GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
    Pricing:
    • 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. 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

  9. 9
    A cross-platform IDE for C and C++
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #IDE #Text Editors #Software Development

  10. 10
    Create iOS, Android and Mac apps in C#
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #App Development #Development Tools 26 social mentions

  11. 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

  12. MonoDevelop enables developers to write desktop and web applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #IDE #Text Editors #Software Development

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