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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.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Netbeans

Sublime Text Visual Studio Code Vim Aptana Studio Brackets Notepad++ GNU Emacs Textmate Geany CLion

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Netbeans 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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    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions

  3. 3

    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. 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.
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    #IDE #Text Editors #Software Development

  5. A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
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    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions

  6. A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
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    #IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions

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

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

  8. TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
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    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 14 social mentions

  9. 9
    Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
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    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions

  10. 10
    A cross-platform IDE for C and C++
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    #IDE #Text Editors #Software Development

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

  12. Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
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    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 25 social mentions

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