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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to VS Code

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

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to VS 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
    1

    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

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 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

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 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

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 175 social mentions

  4. GitHub Landing Page
    GitHub Landing Page
    4

    GitHub

    Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #Version Control #Git 2249 social mentions

  5. Netbeans Landing Page
    Netbeans Landing Page
    5

    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

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 17 social mentions

  6. Brackets Landing Page
    Brackets Landing Page
    6

    Brackets

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

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 47 social mentions

  7. GNU Emacs Landing Page
    GNU Emacs Landing Page
    7

    GNU Emacs

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

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 6 social mentions

  8. Geany Landing Page
    Geany Landing Page
    8

    Geany

    Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 6 social mentions

  9. Textmate Landing Page
    Textmate Landing Page
    9

    Textmate

    TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 15 social mentions

  10. Neovim Landing Page
    Neovim Landing Page
    10

    Neovim

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

    #Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 108 social mentions

  11. CodeSandbox Landing Page
    CodeSandbox Landing Page
    11

    CodeSandbox

    Online playground for React
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Software Development #Text Editors #Programming 310 social mentions

  12. Tailwind CSS Landing Page
    Tailwind CSS Landing Page
    12

    Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Development Tools #CSS Framework #UI 1013 social mentions

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  1. Gordon2297 avatar
    Gordon2297
    · 7 months ago
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    My second startup development buddy.

  2. Stan Bright avatar
    Stan Bright
    · 9 months ago
    · Reply

    VS Code has become a standard nowadays.

  3. Snap Pixel Editor avatar
    Snap Pixel Editor
    · about 1 year ago
    · Reply

    As a code editor, visual studio is just awesome and amazing code editor. Its interface, functionalities and integration are amazing.

  4. Fraser Stewart avatar
    Fraser Stewart
    · about 1 year ago
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    Learning to code & VSC is a great tool

  5. User avatar
    Dream100-AI
    · over 1 year ago
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    Top IDE for developers

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