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

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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. 596

    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. 502

    Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing

    Open Source

    /vim-alternatives
  3. Clear, Fast & Unlimited. Residential & Mobile Proxies For Best Price.

    Try for free paid Free Trial $3.0 (3$ per 1 Gb)

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  4. 333

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

    Open Source

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  5. 285

    Capable and Ergonomic IDE for JVM

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  6. 253

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

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  7. 186

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

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  8. 188

    Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA

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  9. 164

    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. 250

    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

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  11. 182

    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.

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  12. 249

    A modern, open source text editor that understands web design

    Open Source

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  13. 175

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

    /pycharm-alternatives
  14. 263

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

    Open Source

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

  2. Stan Bright avatar
    Stan Bright
    · 5 months ago
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    VS Code has become a standard nowadays.

  3. Snap Pixel Editor avatar
    Snap Pixel Editor
    · 10 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.

  4. Fraser Stewart avatar
    Fraser Stewart
    · 10 months ago
    · Reply

    Learning to code & VSC is a great tool

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    Dream100-AI
    · about 1 year ago
    · Reply

    Top IDE for developers