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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.
Pros of CotEditor
- Excellent support for Japanese encoding3
Pros of Monaco Editor
- Out of the Box Intellisense6
- More features than Ace4
- Power vscode, with all it's features3
- Microsoft Product2
- Accessibility1
- Good support for none-monospace fonts1
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Cons of CotEditor
Cons of Monaco Editor
- Microsoft7