Aptana Studio—used to build web apps, providing outlining, debugging, code completion, and error/warning notifications. It is an open source Eclipse-based IDE that supports several languages, including CSS, DOM, HTML, and JavaScript. It also offers integrated documentation and plugins to support additional languages, including Adobe AIR, Ruby on Rails, Perl, PHP, and Python. It is available as an Eclipse plugin or standalone on Linux, Windows, or macOS X.
Eclipse—used to build and test non-Java code for Java-based software development projects. It is free and has many plugins.
Intellij IDEA—maximizes productivity and supports JVM-based development projects. It performs repetitive tasks and provides intelligent code completion, refactoring, and static code analysis capabilities. This IDE allows developers to focus on building software, enhancing the developer experience.
Microsoft Visual Studio—used for various software development projects, including computer programs, mobile applications, web applications, websites, web apps, and web services. It provides completion and compilation tools and additional features to help develop software.
NetBeans—enables the development of Java-based applications using software modules. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and Solaris. In addition to supporting Java, it offers extensions for different languages, including C, C++, HTML5, JavaScript, and PHP. NetBeans-based applications like NetBeans IDE are only extensible using third-party developers.
Visual Studio Code (VS Code)—helps developers build and debug cloud and web-based applications. A free code editor supported on major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.
XCode—supports Apple-based software development, including iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS. It provides command-line tools to support UNIX-type software development through the macOS Terminal application.