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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft subtitle

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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Visual Studio Code

Sublime Text Vim Notepad++ Netbeans Brackets GNU Emacs Geany Textmate CodeSandbox Neovim

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Code Collaboration Coding Developer Tools Front End Package Manager IDE IDEs And Text Editors JS Library JavaScript Framework Javascript UI Libraries Package Manager Software Development Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Visual Studio Code are Sublime Text, Vim, and Notepad++. 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 Landing Page
    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

  2. Vim Landing Page
    Vim Landing Page
    2

    Vim

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

    #Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions

  3. Notepad++ Landing Page
    Notepad++ Landing Page
    3

    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

  4. Netbeans Landing Page
    Netbeans Landing Page
    4

    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

  5. Brackets Landing Page
    Brackets Landing Page
    5

    Brackets

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

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions

  6. GNU Emacs Landing Page
    GNU Emacs Landing Page
    6

    GNU Emacs

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

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

  7. Geany Landing Page
    Geany Landing Page
    7

    Geany

    Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions

  8. Textmate Landing Page
    Textmate Landing Page
    8

    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

  9. CodeSandbox Landing Page
    CodeSandbox Landing Page
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    CodeSandbox

    Online playground for React
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Programming #Code Collaboration 300 social mentions

  10. Neovim Landing Page
    Neovim Landing Page
    10

    Neovim

    Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions

  11. Homebrew Landing Page
    Homebrew Landing Page
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    Homebrew

    The missing package manager for macOS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 877 social mentions

  12. React Landing Page
    React Landing Page
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    React

    A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Javascript UI Libraries #JS Library #JavaScript Framework 775 social mentions

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  1. Snap Pixel Editor avatar
    Snap Pixel Editor
    · about 2 months ago
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    As a code editor, visual studio is just awesome and amazing code editor. Its interface, functionalities and integration are amazing.

  2. Fraser Stewart avatar
    Fraser Stewart
    · about 2 months ago
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    Learning to code & VSC is a great tool

  3. User avatar
    Dream100-AI
    · 5 months ago
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    Top IDE for developers

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