Top-Rated Programming and Code Software

Atom

A free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control.

Visual Studio Code

A source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring.

SlickEdit

A cross-platform commercial source code editor, text editor, code editor and Integrated Development Environment developed by SlickEdit, Inc. Supports Integrated Debuggers for GNU C/C++, Java, WinDbg, Clang C/C++ LLDB, Groovy, Google Go, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Xcode, and Android JVM/NDK.

Brackets

A source code editor with a primary focus on web development.

Code Climate

Code Climate is an open, extensible platform for ensuring code health that analyzes trillions of lines of code per week. Offers a fully-configurable test coverage and maintainability data throughout the development workflow.

Coda

A commercial web development application for macOS.

EditPlus

A text editor, HTML editor, PHP editor and Java editor for Windows.

Notepad++

A text editor and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window.

Aptana

A company that makes web application development tools for Web 2.0 and Ajax for use with a variety of programming languages (such as JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and Python).

jEdit

A free software text editor that is written in Java and runs on any operating system with Java support, including BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.