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CotEditor vs Monaco Editor: What are the differences?

CotEditor: Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X. CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X; Monaco Editor: A browser based code editor. The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

CotEditor and Monaco Editor can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.

"Excellent support for Japanese encoding" is the top reason why over 2 developers like CotEditor, while over 3 developers mention "Out of the Box Intellisense" as the leading cause for choosing Monaco Editor.

CotEditor and Monaco Editor are both open source tools. Monaco Editor with 15.9K GitHub stars and 1.39K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than CotEditor with 2.77K GitHub stars and 252 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Monaco Editor
  • 3
    Excellent support for Japanese encoding
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    Out of the Box Intellisense
  • 4
    More features than Ace
  • 3
    Power vscode, with all it's features
  • 2
    Microsoft Product
  • 1
    Accessibility
  • 1
    Good support for none-monospace fonts

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    What is CotEditor?

    CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X.

    What is Monaco Editor?

    The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

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      What are some alternatives to CotEditor and Monaco Editor?
      BBEdit
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      Git
      Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
      GitHub
      GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
      Visual Studio Code
      Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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