On-line (SaaS) browser-based subscriptions avoids need for setup and makes collaboration easier:Ĭloud9 from Amazon runs in an EC2 instance to provide a debugger and terminal to various dev environments for AWS Lambda serverless, CodeStar, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, etc. Its plug-ins are based on Mozilla add-ons such as a DOM Inspector. multi-platform Komodo IDE since 2018 is “free” as is part of an ActiveState Platform subscription.$49.99 BBEdit has a 30-day evaluation period.Visual Studio 2019 for Mac from Microsoft (ported from Visual Studio, which is licensed) for developing Xamarin and Unity apps in the C# language.IntelliJ for Java, WebStorm and PhpStorm, $200 P圜harm for Python.(There is no equivalent of Windows Notepad++ on MacOS).Nagware (free to start, then pop-ups asking for money): Spyder (for Python pyflakes and pylint code analysis)Īn IDE for Go from Jetbrains (makers of IntelliJ, P圜harm, etc.).Atom from GitHub (free, built using GitHub’s Electron).vim (for mouse-free editing efficiency).This is a collection of notes of installing and using text editors for the Mac.īelow is a list of text editors grouped by licensing term:
