Here's a quick overview of some popular code editors, categorized by their features and use cases.
1. Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js, and features intelligent code completion, debugging, and embedded Git commands.
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2. Atom
Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file. Atom is developed by GitHub.
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- Atom
3. Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and prose. It wraps around your content and allows you to focus on coding. It's a sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and prose.
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4. Brackets
Brackets is an open-source code editor for web design and development built by Adobe. It's packed with features that make web design and development more efficient.
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5. Vim
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text as easy as possible. It's an improvement on Vi, one of the earliest and most famous text editors.
For more information on code editors and their features, you can check out our code editors comparison guide.