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Prathap Rathod
Prathap Rathod

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Best Top 12 Text Editors for Programmers

Code Editors/Text Editors

Whether you're taking notes, coding, or writing markdown, a good text editor is a part of our daily lives!

  • Atom: A text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core. One of our favorites!
  • Sublime Text: A sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and prose with great performance.
  • Notepad++: A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
  • Visual Studio Code: Code editing redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
  • TextMate: A code and markup editor for OS X.
  • Coda 2: A fast, clean, and powerful text editor for OS X.
  • WebStorm: Lightweight yet powerful IDE, perfectly equipped for complex client-side development and server-side development with Node.js.
  • Vim: A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.
  • Brackets: A lightweight and powerful modern text editor; written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
  • Emacs: An extensible, customizable text editor with built-in functions to aid in quick modifications of text and code.
  • Dreamweaver: Not your typical code editor, however, Dreamweaver can be used to write code and build websites through a visual interface. Learn more in this simple Dreamweaver tutorial.
  • SpaceMacs: A text editor design to operate in both Emacs and Vim editor modes.

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My choice is Codelobster - codelobster.com