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Followers170

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What is Emacs? The extensible self-documenting text editor. GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

What is 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.

Emacs and Monaco Editor can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

"Vast array of extensions" is the top reason why over 57 developers like Emacs, while over 3 developers mention "Out of the Box Intellisense" as the leading cause for choosing Monaco Editor.

Monaco Editor is an open source tool with 15.9K GitHub stars and 1.39K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Monaco Editor's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Emacs has a broader approval, being mentioned in 99 company stacks & 73 developers stacks; compared to Monaco Editor, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Pros of Emacs

Pros of Monaco Editor

65
Vast array of extensions
44
Have all you can imagine
40
Everything i need in one place
39
Portability
32
Customer config
16
Your config works on any platform
13
Low memory consumption
11
Perfect for monsters
10
All life inside one program
8
Extendable, portable, fast - all at your fingertips
6
Enables extremely rapid keyboard-only navigation
5
Widely-used keybindings (e.g. by bash)
5
Extensible in Lisp
5
Runs everywhere important
4
FOSS Software
4
Powerful multilanguage IDE
4
Git integration
4
May be old but always reliable
3
Asynchronous
3
Powerful UI
1
Huge ecosystem

6
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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Cons of Emacs

Cons of Monaco Editor

4
So good and extensible, that one can get sidetracked
4
Hard to learn for beginners
1
Not default preinstalled in GNU/linux

6
Microsoft

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What is Emacs?

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

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 Emacs and Monaco Editor?

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Eclipse

Standard Eclipse package suited for Java and plug-in development plus adding new plugins; already includes Git, Marketplace Client, source code and developer documentation. Click here to file a bug against Eclipse Platform.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Spacemacs

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.

Neovim

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: simplify maintenance and encourage contributions, split the work between multiple developers, enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source, and improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.

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