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Brackets vs RStudio: What are the differences?
Brackets: A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. Try Creative Cloud Extract (preview) for Brackets for an easy way to get clean, minimal CSS straight from a PSD with no generated code; RStudio: Open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R community. An integrated development environment for R, with a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution Publish and distribute data products across your organization. One button deployment of Shiny applications, R Markdown reports, Jupyter Notebooks, and more. Collections of R functions, data, and compiled code in a well-defined format. You can expand the types of analyses you do by adding packages..
Brackets and RStudio are primarily classified as "Text Editor" and "Integrated Development Environment" tools respectively.
Brackets is an open source tool with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.42K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Brackets's open source repository on GitHub.
LifeChurch.tv, easygenerator, and MaGIC are some of the popular companies that use Brackets, whereas RStudio is used by Apptopia, Polydice, and Relax Commerce. Brackets has a broader approval, being mentioned in 36 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to RStudio, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Brackets
- Beautiful UI51
- Lightweight40
- Extremely customizable25
- Free plugins20
- Live Preview14
- Free themes13
- Clean8
- Easy7
- Integration with photoshop6
- Perfect for web development4
- Simple4
- Fast4
- Awesome UI2
- Clean UI2
- Code suggestions2
Pros of RStudio
- Visual editor for R Markdown documents2
- In-line code execution using blocks2
- Can be themed1
- In-line graphing support1
- Latex support1
- Sophitiscated statistical packages1
- Supports Rcpp, python and SQL1
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Cons of Brackets
- Not good for backend developer3
- You have to edit json file to set your settings.1
- Bad node.js support1