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What are some alternatives to Brackets?
Atom, Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Vim, and Notepad++ are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Brackets.
Atom
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Why people like Atom:
- Free
- Open source
- Modular design
- Hackable
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Why people like Visual Studio Code:
- Powerful multilanguage IDE
- Fast
- Front-end develop out of the box
- Support TypeScript IntelliSense
Sublime Text
A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
Why people like Sublime Text:
- Lightweight
- Plugins
- Super fast
- Great code editor
Vim
Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Why people like Vim:
- Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)
- Fast
- Highly configurable
- Less mouse dependence
Notepad++
Free source code editor and Notepad replacement
Why people like Notepad++:
- Syntax for all languages that i use
- Tabbed ui
- Great code editor
- Fast and lightweight
Emacs
The extensible self-documenting text editor.
Why people like Emacs:
- Vast array of extensions
- Have all you can imagine
- Everything i need in one place
- Portability
CodeMirror
In-browser code editor used in the dev tools for both Firefox and Chrome, Light Table, Adobe Brackets, Bitbucket, and many other projects.
Why people like CodeMirror:
- Integrable in your application
- Better content manipulation methods
- JavaScript based
- Easy setup
Neovim
Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Why people like Neovim:
- Modern and more powerful Vim
- Fast
- Asynchronous plugins
- Stable
TextMate
The Missing Editor for Mac OS X
Why people like TextMate:
- Syntax highlighting
- Javascript
- jQuery developer
- PHP Developer
RStudio
Open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R community
gedit
Text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows
Why people like gedit:
- Fast
- GNOME Integration
- Lightweight
- Syntax Highlighting
CodePen
An online community for testing and showcasing user-created HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets
Monaco Editor
A browser based code editor
Why people like Monaco Editor:
- Out of the Box Intellisense
- Accessibility
- Power vscode, with all it's features
- Microsoft Product
Coda 2
A proprietary web development application for macOS
Why people like Coda 2:
- Live sib-by-side Preview
- Built-in #transmit File Transfer
- OSX native App
- Panic software - what's more to say?
A proprietary web development tool
Kakoune
Vim inspired — Faster as in less keystrokes — Multiple selections — Orthogonal design
Why people like Kakoune:
- Fast editing
- Multiple selections
- Interactivity
- Self documented
Micro
Modern terminal-based text editor
Why people like Micro :
- It feels like a GUI-based editor ... in a terminal
UltraEdit
A multi-purpose text editor for Microsoft Windows and Linux
CotEditor
Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
Why people like CotEditor:
- Excellent support for Japanese encoding
Slap
Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
Why people like Slap:
- Great for SSH sessions and git commit messages
Textadept
A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor
Why people like Textadept:
- Fast
Light Table
It features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation
λiquid
Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure
CodeRunner
A lightweight, multi-language programming editor for macOS