Brackets vs Spacemacs: 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; Spacemacs: Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil: The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and Vim!*. Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor..

Brackets can be classified as a tool in the "Text Editor" category, while Spacemacs is grouped under "Tools for Text Editors".

Some of the features offered by Brackets are:

• Code Hints from a PSD
• Inline Editors
• Live Preview

On the other hand, Spacemacs provides the following key features:

• Batteries Included
• Nice UI
• Excellent ergonomics

"Beautiful UI" is the top reason why over 46 developers like Brackets, while over 11 developers mention "Advanced support for Vim key bindings" as the leading cause for choosing Spacemacs.

Brackets and Spacemacs are both open source tools. It seems that Brackets with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.42K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Spacemacs with 18.1K GitHub stars and 4.45K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Brackets has a broader approval, being mentioned in 36 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to Spacemacs, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.