7 little-known code editors that deserve your attention
I love testing new code editors. In the course of my various tests, I've picked out 7 code editors that could be your next dev companion. Disclaimer: the links below do not open directly onto the resources cited but on a summary with more details than here, so you don't have to read all the tool's documentation to understand what it is and what its main features are. If you're interested by the resource, there's a button to go directly to the relevant site. See "Visit this tool's website" blue button, top right on desktop view 1. Kate Kate is a versatile text editor with features aimed at improving productivity and ease of use for both general text editing and software development. 2. Lapce A modern open source code editor in Rust. Lightning-fast and Powerful. Quick from launch to every keystroke, and batteries included. 3. VSCodium VSCodium is a fork of VSCode. This project’s sole aim is to provide you with ready to use binaries without Microsoft’s telemetry code. Hell yes, Microsoft is Microsoft! ;-) 4. Zed Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It's also open source. Mac, Windows, Linux. 5. Pulsar Pulsar is a community-driven, open-source text editor known for its hackability. It's a specialized version of Chromium that's been designed for coding rather than browsing, offering a unique blend of web technology and native functionality. 6. Geany Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages. 7. Lite-XL A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite. Personally, I'm partial to Cursor and Zed, which I'm using in parallel at the moment. And you, did any of them poke you in the eye?
I love testing new code editors. In the course of my various tests, I've picked out 7 code editors that could be your next dev companion.
Disclaimer: the links below do not open directly onto the resources cited but on a summary with more details than here, so you don't have to read all the tool's documentation to understand what it is and what its main features are. If you're interested by the resource, there's a button to go directly to the relevant site. See "Visit this tool's website" blue button, top right on desktop view
1. Kate
Kate is a versatile text editor with features aimed at improving productivity and ease of use for both general text editing and software development.
2. Lapce
A modern open source code editor in Rust. Lightning-fast and Powerful. Quick from launch to every keystroke, and batteries included.
3. VSCodium
VSCodium is a fork of VSCode. This project’s sole aim is to provide you with ready to use binaries without Microsoft’s telemetry code. Hell yes, Microsoft is Microsoft! ;-)
4. Zed
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It's also open source. Mac, Windows, Linux.
5. Pulsar
Pulsar is a community-driven, open-source text editor known for its hackability. It's a specialized version of Chromium that's been designed for coding rather than browsing, offering a unique blend of web technology and native functionality.
6. Geany
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages.
7. Lite-XL
A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite.
Personally, I'm partial to Cursor and Zed, which I'm using in parallel at the moment. And you, did any of them poke you in the eye?
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