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Best VS Code Alternatives & Competitors in 2024

The best VS Code alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
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  1. 603

    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.

    Open Source

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  2. 495

    Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing

    Open Source

    /vim-alternatives
  3. Monitor all your cloud services with our status page aggregator. IT teams choose IsDown to monitor all their vendors and get alerts whenever an outage occurs. Integration with Datadog, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and a lot more.

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  4. 334

    A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

    Open Source

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  5. 286

    Capable and Ergonomic IDE for JVM

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  6. 250

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

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  7. 193

    Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications

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  8. 193

    Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA

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  9. 165

    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.

    Open Source

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  10. 185

    Xcode is Apple’s powerful integrated development environment for creating great apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 includes the Xcode IDE, instruments, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.

    /xcode-alternatives
  11. 249

    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.

    Open Source

    /netbeans-alternatives
  12. 249

    A modern, open source text editor that understands web design

    Open Source

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  13. 177

    Python & Django IDE with intelligent code completion, on-the-fly error checking, quick-fixes, and much more...

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  14. 267

    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.

    Open Source

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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
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    VS Code has become a standard nowadays.

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

  4. Fraser Stewart avatar
    Fraser Stewart
    · about 1 year ago
    · Reply

    Learning to code & VSC is a great tool

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    Dream100-AI
    · over 1 year ago
    · Reply

    Top IDE for developers