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Alternatives to TextMate

BBEdit, Coda, Atom, Brackets, and Vim are the most popular alternatives and competitors to TextMate.
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What is TextMate and what are its top alternatives?

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
TextMate is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to TextMate

  • BBEdit
    BBEdit

    It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data. ...

  • Coda
    Coda

    It is a new doc for teams. It begins with a blinking cursor and grows as big as your team’s ambition. Coda docs do everything from run weekly meetings to launch products. ...

  • Atom
    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. ...

  • Brackets
    Brackets

    With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. ...

  • Vim
    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. ...

  • Visual Studio Code
    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. ...

  • Sublime Text
    Sublime Text

    Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform. ...

  • Notepad++
    Notepad++

    Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. ...

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BBEdit

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A proprietary text editor for macOS
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PROS OF BBEDIT
  • 1
    Support for character encodings and file formats
  • 1
    Flexible project file management
  • 1
    Snippets functionality includes substitutions
  • 1
    Highly extensible (plugins, text filters, etc)
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    Superb regex find/replace
CONS OF BBEDIT
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    Coda logo

    Coda

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    A new type of document that blends the flexibility of documents, the power of spreadsheets, and the utility...
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    PROS OF CODA
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      CONS OF CODA
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        Atom

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        PROS OF ATOM
        • 529
          Free
        • 449
          Open source
        • 343
          Modular design
        • 321
          Hackable
        • 316
          Beautiful UI
        • 170
          Github integration
        • 147
          Backed by github
        • 119
          Built with node.js
        • 113
          Web native
        • 107
          Community
        • 35
          Packages
        • 18
          Cross platform
        • 5
          Multicursor support
        • 5
          Nice UI
        • 5
          TypeScript editor
        • 3
          Snippets
        • 3
          Simple but powerful
        • 3
          Open source, lots of packages, and so configurable
        • 3
          cli start
        • 3
          Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR
        • 2
          Awesome
        • 2
          Smart TypeScript code completion
        • 2
          Well documented
        • 2
          It's powerful
        • 2
          Code readability
        • 1
          works with GitLab
        • 1
          User friendly
        • 1
          full support
        • 1
          vim support
        • 1
          Split-Tab Layout
        • 1
          "Free", "Hackable", "Open Source", The Awesomness
        • 1
          Apm publish minor
        • 1
          Hackable and Open Source
        • 1
          Consistent UI on all platforms
        • 0
          Publish
        CONS OF ATOM
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          Slow with large files
        • 7
          Slow startup
        • 2
          Most of the time packages are hard to find.
        • 1
          No longer maintained
        • 1
          Cannot Run code with F5
        • 1
          Can be easily Modified

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        Jerome Dalbert
        Principal Backend Software Engineer at StackShare · | 13 upvotes · 889.6K views

        I liked Sublime Text for its speed, simplicity and keyboard shortcuts which synergize well when working on scripting languages like Ruby and JavaScript. I extended the editor with custom Python scripts that improved keyboard navigability such as autofocusing the sidebar when no files are open, or changing tab closing behavior.

        But customization can only get you so far, and there were little things that I still had to use the mouse for, such as scrolling, repositioning lines on the screen, selecting the line number of a failing test stack trace from a separate plugin pane, etc. After 3 years of wearily moving my arm and hand to perform the same repetitive tasks, I decided to switch to Vim for 3 reasons:

        • your fingers literally don’t ever need to leave the keyboard home row (I had to remap the escape key though)
        • it is a reliable tool that has been around for more than 30 years and will still be around for the next 30 years
        • I wanted to "look like a hacker" by doing everything inside my terminal and by becoming a better Unix citizen

        The learning curve is very steep and it took me a year to master it, but investing time to be truly comfortable with my #TextEditor was more than worth it. To me, Vim comes close to being the perfect editor and I probably won’t need to switch ever again. It feels good to ignore new editors that come out every few years, like Atom and Visual Studio Code.

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        Julian Sanchez
        Lead Developer at Chore Champion · | 9 upvotes · 767K views

        We use Visual Studio Code because it allows us to easily and quickly integrate with Git, much like Sublime Merge ,but it is integrated into the IDE. Another cool part about VS Code is the ability collaborate with each other with Visual Studio Live Share which allows our whole team to get more done together. It brings the convenience of the Google Suite to programming, offering something that works more smoothly than anything found on Atom or Sublime Text

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        Brackets logo

        Brackets

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        A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
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        PROS OF BRACKETS
        • 51
          Beautiful UI
        • 40
          Lightweight
        • 25
          Extremely customizable
        • 20
          Free plugins
        • 14
          Live Preview
        • 13
          Free themes
        • 8
          Clean
        • 7
          Easy
        • 6
          Integration with photoshop
        • 4
          Perfect for web development
        • 4
          Simple
        • 4
          Fast
        • 2
          Awesome UI
        • 2
          Clean UI
        • 2
          Code suggestions
        CONS OF BRACKETS
        • 3
          Not good for backend developer
        • 1
          You have to edit json file to set your settings.
        • 1
          Bad node.js support

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        Chidumebi Ifemena
        UI/UX Designer, Web Developer · | 2 upvotes · 87K views

        For a beginner developer, what tool is most suitable for coding, Brackets or Visual Studio Code?

        I am having some issues doing some inline CSS coding using Vscode but it is possible with Brackets. Polls have it saying Vscode is the most suitable for web development, so which is the best?

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        Vim logo

        Vim

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        PROS OF VIM
        • 347
          Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)
        • 328
          Fast
        • 312
          Highly configurable
        • 297
          Less mouse dependence
        • 247
          Lightweight
        • 145
          Speed
        • 100
          Plugins
        • 97
          Hardcore
        • 82
          It's for pros
        • 65
          Vertically split windows
        • 30
          Open-source
        • 25
          Modal editing
        • 22
          No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor
        • 21
          It stood the Test of Time
        • 16
          Unicode
        • 13
          VimPlugins
        • 13
          Everything is on the keyboard
        • 13
          Stick with terminal
        • 12
          Dotfiles
        • 11
          Flexible Indenting
        • 10
          Hands stay on the keyboard
        • 10
          Efficient and powerful
        • 10
          Programmable
        • 9
          Everywhere
        • 9
          Large number of Shortcuts
        • 8
          A chainsaw for text editing
        • 8
          Unmatched productivity
        • 7
          Developer speed
        • 7
          Super fast
        • 7
          Makes you a true bearded developer
        • 7
          Because its not Emacs
        • 7
          Modal editing changes everything
        • 6
          You cannot exit
        • 6
          Themes
        • 5
          EasyMotion
        • 5
          Most and most powerful plugins of any editor
        • 5
          Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd
        • 5
          Intergrated into most editors
        • 5
          Shortcuts
        • 5
          Great on large text files
        • 5
          Habit
        • 5
          Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc
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          Intuitive, once mastered
        • 4
          Perfect command line editor
        • 1
          Not MicroSoft
        CONS OF VIM
        • 8
          Ugly UI
        • 5
          Hard to learn

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        Denys
        Software engineer at Typeform · | 13 upvotes · 1.7M views
        • Go because it's easy and simple, facilitates collaboration , and also it's fast, scalable, powerful.
        • Visual Studio Code because it has one of the most sophisticated Go language support plugins.
        • Vim because it's Vim
        • Git because it's Git
        • Docker and Docker Compose because it's quick and easy to have reproducible builds/tests with them
        • Arch Linux because Docker for Mac/Win is a disaster for the human nervous system, and Arch is the coolest Linux distro so far
        • Stack Overflow because of Copy-Paste Driven Development
        • JavaScript and Python when a something needs to be coded for yesterday
        • PhpStorm because it saves me like 300 "Ctrl+F" key strokes a minute
        • cURL because terminal all the way
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        Jerome Dalbert
        Principal Backend Software Engineer at StackShare · | 13 upvotes · 889.6K views

        I liked Sublime Text for its speed, simplicity and keyboard shortcuts which synergize well when working on scripting languages like Ruby and JavaScript. I extended the editor with custom Python scripts that improved keyboard navigability such as autofocusing the sidebar when no files are open, or changing tab closing behavior.

        But customization can only get you so far, and there were little things that I still had to use the mouse for, such as scrolling, repositioning lines on the screen, selecting the line number of a failing test stack trace from a separate plugin pane, etc. After 3 years of wearily moving my arm and hand to perform the same repetitive tasks, I decided to switch to Vim for 3 reasons:

        • your fingers literally don’t ever need to leave the keyboard home row (I had to remap the escape key though)
        • it is a reliable tool that has been around for more than 30 years and will still be around for the next 30 years
        • I wanted to "look like a hacker" by doing everything inside my terminal and by becoming a better Unix citizen

        The learning curve is very steep and it took me a year to master it, but investing time to be truly comfortable with my #TextEditor was more than worth it. To me, Vim comes close to being the perfect editor and I probably won’t need to switch ever again. It feels good to ignore new editors that come out every few years, like Atom and Visual Studio Code.

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        Visual Studio Code logo

        Visual Studio Code

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        PROS OF VISUAL STUDIO CODE
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          Powerful multilanguage IDE
        • 308
          Fast
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          Front-end develop out of the box
        • 158
          Support TypeScript IntelliSense
        • 142
          Very basic but free
        • 126
          Git integration
        • 106
          Intellisense
        • 78
          Faster than Atom
        • 53
          Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
        • 45
          Great Refactoring Tools
        • 44
          Good Plugins
        • 42
          Terminal
        • 38
          Superb markdown support
        • 36
          Open Source
        • 34
          Extensions
        • 26
          Large & up-to-date extension community
        • 26
          Awesome UI
        • 24
          Powerful and fast
        • 22
          Portable
        • 18
          Best editor
        • 18
          Best code editor
        • 17
          Easy to get started with
        • 15
          Lots of extensions
        • 15
          Built on Electron
        • 15
          Crossplatform
        • 15
          Good for begginers
        • 14
          Extensions for everything
        • 14
          Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
        • 14
          All Languages Support
        • 13
          Easy to use and learn
        • 12
          Extensible
        • 12
          "fast, stable & easy to use"
        • 11
          Totally customizable
        • 11
          Git out of the box
        • 11
          Faster edit for slow computer
        • 11
          Ui design is great
        • 11
          Useful for begginer
        • 10
          Great community
        • 10
          SSH support
        • 10
          Fast Startup
        • 9
          It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
        • 9
          Powerful Debugger
        • 9
          Great language support
        • 9
          Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
        • 8
          Python extension is fast
        • 8
          Can compile and run .py files
        • 7
          Great document formater
        • 7
          Features rich
        • 6
          He is not Michael
        • 6
          Awesome multi cursor support
        • 6
          Extension Echosystem
        • 6
          She is not Rachel
        • 5
          Language server client
        • 5
          Easy azure
        • 5
          SFTP Workspace
        • 5
          VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
        • 5
          Very proffesional
        • 4
          Supports lots of operating systems
        • 4
          Has better support and more extentions for debugging
        • 4
          Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
        • 4
          Virtualenv integration
        • 3
          Has more than enough languages for any developer
        • 3
          Better autocompletes than Atom
        • 3
          Emmet preinstalled
        • 3
          'batteries included'
        • 3
          More tools to integrate with vs
        • 2
          VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
        • 2
          Big extension marketplace
        • 2
          Customizable
        • 2
          Microsoft
        • 2
          Light
        • 2
          Fast and ruby is built right in
        • 2
          CMake support with autocomplete
        CONS OF VISUAL STUDIO CODE
        • 46
          Slow startup
        • 29
          Resource hog at times
        • 20
          Poor refactoring
        • 16
          Microsoft
        • 13
          Poor UI Designer
        • 11
          Weak Ui design tools
        • 10
          Poor autocomplete
        • 8
          Super Slow
        • 8
          Microsoft sends telemetry data
        • 7
          Poor in PHP
        • 7
          Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
        • 6
          It's MicroSoft
        • 3
          No built in live Preview
        • 3
          No Built in Browser Preview
        • 3
          Poor in Python
        • 3
          Electron
        • 3
          No color Intergrator
        • 3
          Very basic for java development and buggy at times
        • 2
          Powered by Electron
        • 2
          Bad Plugin Architecture
        • 1
          Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
        • 1
          Slow C++ Language Server

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        Simon Reymann
        Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 8.9M views

        Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

        • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
        • Respectively Git as revision control system
        • SourceTree as Git GUI
        • Visual Studio Code as IDE
        • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
        • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
        • SonarQube as quality gate
        • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
        • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
        • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
        • Heroku for deploying in test environments
        • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
        • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
        • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
        • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
        • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

        The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

        • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
        • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
        • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
        • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
        • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
        • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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        Johnny Bell

        I've been in the #frontend game for about 7 years now. I started coding in Sublime Text because all of the tutorials I was doing back then everyone was using it. I found the speed amazing compared to some other tools at the time. I kept using Sublime Text for about 4-5 years.

        I find Sublime Text lacks some functionality, after all it is just a text editor rather than a full fledged IDE. I finally converted over to PhpStorm as I was working with Magento and Magento as you know is mainly #PHP based.

        This was amazing all the features in PhpStorm I loved, the debugging features, and the control click feature when you click on a dependency or linked file it will take you to that file. It was great.

        PhpStorm is kind of slow, I found that Prettier was taking a long time to format my code, and it just was lagging a lot so I was looking for alternatives. After watching some more tutorial videos I noticed that everyone was using Visual Studio Code. So I gave it a go, and its amazing.

        It has support for everything I need with the plugins and the integration with Git is amazing. The speed of this IDE is blazing fast, and I wouldn't go back to using PhpStorm anymore. I highly recommend giving Visual Studio Code a try!

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        Sublime Text logo

        Sublime Text

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        PROS OF SUBLIME TEXT
        • 720
          Lightweight
        • 652
          Plugins
        • 641
          Super fast
        • 468
          Great code editor
        • 442
          Cross platform
        • 280
          Nice UI
        • 260
          Unlimited trial
        • 153
          Cmd + d is the best command ever
        • 92
          Great community
        • 46
          Package control, modules
        • 26
          Mac OS X support
        • 23
          Easy to get started with
        • 22
          Monokai
        • 21
          Everything you need without the bloat
        • 21
          Built in Python
        • 18
          Easy
        • 14
          Speed
        • 12
          Session & edit resuming
        • 10
          Package Control
        • 9
          Well Designed
        • 8
          Multiple selections
        • 7
          ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever
        • 7
          Nice
        • 7
          Fast, simple and lightweight
        • 5
          It's easy to use, beautiful, simple, and plugins rule
        • 5
          So futuristic and convenient
        • 5
          ALT + F3 the best command ever
        • 5
          Great
        • 4
          Find anything fast within entire project
        • 4
          Easy to use
        • 4
          Free
        • 4
          Simple and clean design
        • 3
          Hackable
        • 3
          Pretty
        • 3
          UI + plugins
        • 3
          Sublime Merge (Git Integration)
        • 2
          Totally customizable
        • 2
          Color schemes and cmd+d
        • 2
          Material theme best theme forever
        • 0
          Const
        CONS OF SUBLIME TEXT
        • 8
          Steep learning curve
        • 6
          Everything
        • 4
          Flexibility to move file
        • 4
          Number of plugins doing the same thing
        • 4
          Doesn't act like a Mac app
        • 3
          Not open sourced
        • 2
          Don't have flutter integration
        • 2
          Forces you to buy license

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        Johnny Bell

        I've been in the #frontend game for about 7 years now. I started coding in Sublime Text because all of the tutorials I was doing back then everyone was using it. I found the speed amazing compared to some other tools at the time. I kept using Sublime Text for about 4-5 years.

        I find Sublime Text lacks some functionality, after all it is just a text editor rather than a full fledged IDE. I finally converted over to PhpStorm as I was working with Magento and Magento as you know is mainly #PHP based.

        This was amazing all the features in PhpStorm I loved, the debugging features, and the control click feature when you click on a dependency or linked file it will take you to that file. It was great.

        PhpStorm is kind of slow, I found that Prettier was taking a long time to format my code, and it just was lagging a lot so I was looking for alternatives. After watching some more tutorial videos I noticed that everyone was using Visual Studio Code. So I gave it a go, and its amazing.

        It has support for everything I need with the plugins and the integration with Git is amazing. The speed of this IDE is blazing fast, and I wouldn't go back to using PhpStorm anymore. I highly recommend giving Visual Studio Code a try!

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        Labinator Team

        At labinator.com, we use HTML5, CSS 3, Sass, Vanilla.JS and PHP when building our premium WordPress themes and plugins. When writing our codes, we use Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code depending on the project. We run Manjaro and Debian operating systems in our office. Manjaro is a great desktop operating system for all range of tasks while Debian is a solid choice for servers.

        WordPress became a very popular choice when it comes to content management systems and building websites. It is easy to learn and has a great community behind it. The high number of plugins as well that are available for WordPress allows any user to customize it depending on his/her needs.

        For development, HTML5 with Sass is our go-to choice when building our themes.

        Main Advantages Of Sass:

        • It's CSS syntax friendly
        • It offers variables
        • It uses a nested syntax
        • It includes mixins
        • Great community and online support.
        • Great documentation that is easy to read and follow.

        As for PHP, we always thrive to use PHP 7.3+. After the introduction of PHP 7, the WordPress development process became more stable and reliable than before. If you a developer considering PHP 7.3+ for your project, it would be good to note the following benefits.

        The Benefits Of Using PHP:

        • Open Source.
        • Highly Extendible.
        • Easy to learn and read.
        • Platform independent.
        • Compatible with APACHE.
        • Low development and maintenance cost.
        • Great community and support.
        • Detailed documentation that has everything you need!

        Why PHP 7.3+?

        • Flexible Heredoc & Nowdoc Syntaxes - Two key methods for defining strings within PHP. They also became easier to read and more reliable.
        • A good boost in performance speed which is extremely important when it comes to WordPress development.
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        Notepad++ logo

        Notepad++

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        PROS OF NOTEPAD++
        • 103
          Syntax for all languages that i use
        • 59
          Tabbed ui
        • 56
          Great code editor
        • 53
          Fast and lightweight
        • 38
          Plugins
        • 28
          Nice GUI
        • 26
          Regex & Special Character Search & Replace
        • 16
          Fast startup
        • 9
          Application is free, and plugins are too
        • 9
          Themes
        • 6
          Free
        • 4
          Very Lightweight
        • 3
          100% Free
        • 2
          Column selection
        • 1
          Awesome autocomplete
        • 1
          Easy edit on FTP servers (NppFTP)
        • 1
          Cos it's seck
        • 1
          Nice gui. are you kidding me?
        • 1
          Open Sourced
        CONS OF NOTEPAD++
        • 3
          No default plugin manager
        • 2
          Can't install more advanced packets

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        Hey there, I am using Visual Studio for C++ and Notepad++ for web development. Should I switch to Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code for web development?

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        Gustavo Muñoz
        Senior Software Engineer at JOOR · | 3 upvotes · 312.7K views

        I have chosen Visual Studio Code after testing a lot of other editors like Atom, Sublime Text (with legal license), Vim or even Notepad++ because it is the sum of all their virtues and none of their defects. It's fast, it has all the tools and plugins I need to work, and it's pretty and very good optimized. It has what I need to work and nothing more. And the main plugins works like a charm. Developing for React or Flutter is amazing. Even the TypeScript plugin works great. I like how IntelliSense works, and all the extra tools to code remotely using #ssh, access #RESTfulAPI or event manage projects or collaborating remotely. Thanks #Microsoft for Visual Studio Code.

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