What are the Best Code Editors in 2024?
Tags: codeeditor, webdev, programming, programmers
Published: 2024-02-26 08:06:35

Imagine you write a code, but then you feel the need to edit it. What to do? Well, use code editors. As the name suggests, code editors help in editing your code. Further, among all the code editors, it’s a struggle to find which one you should use. Like what’s the right tool for you.

So, today I’m providing a list of different code editors. Sure, I can’t give you the list of all the code editors, but this article will definitely help people who don’t know even a bit about code editors.

Let’s start with free code editors first.

**1. Visual Studio Code**

Although it’s not confirmed how many people use Visual Studio code to edit their codes, in 2020, Visual Studio Code was the most used code editor. Almost 74.5% of people were found using Visual Code Studio. Maybe that’s because Visual Studio Code not only works for macOS but for Windows X64M and Linux as well. It also has an auto-completion feature.

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**2. Brackets**

It’s another code editor. Brackets is written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It’s also a cross-platform code editor. This means that it’s available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Further, since Brackets was made and released by Adobe, it can be gauged that it will understand web design. So yes, Brackets does understand web design. But, now Brackets isn’t available. Adobe stopped supporting Brackets in 2021.

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**3. Atom**

Atom wasn’t only free, but also an open-source editor for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Further, it gave great support to plugins that were written in JavaScript. It was considered a hackable text editor as well. This means that it can be customized for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. But then in 2022, GitHub said that it’s ending Atom. Why? They want to prioritize technologies that would be of great help in software development.

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**4. Spacemacs**

This code editor is perfect for beginners. Further, the best part about using Spacemacs is that there’s a huge community of modal-editing emacs users that configure one of the best packages for users. What’s even better? It’s free!


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**5. Sublime Text**

It’s another great code editor. It’s also claimed to have a faster boost and take less memory space. This means you can seriously consider it for big projects. But the thing is all this comes with a price tag. And hey, it’s also said that in large projects, sublime text runs painfully slow.
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But among all these code editors, which one should you use? Well, you should prefer using Visual Code Studio. That’s because it not only supports many programming languages but there’s also built-in support for languages. There are also debugging tools and extensions. You can also do Git integration in Visual Studio Code.