Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.

Eric is described as 'Full-featured IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Python and Ruby, This is one of the best options for programming in Python' and is a IDE in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Eric for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Eric alternative is Sublime Text, which is free. Other great apps like Eric are Eclipse, Geany, Apache NetBeans and PyCharm.
Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.



WideStudio is an open source, Integrated Development Environment for desktop applications purely made in Japan. This enables you to develop GUI applications that can run on Windows95/98/Me/NT/2000/Xp, WindowsCE, Linux, FreeBSD, SOLARIS, MacOSX(w/X11), BTRON, T-Engine...


Code Writer is a free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, downloadable from the Windows Store. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.




SPE IDE - Stani's Python Editor is a Free python IDE for Windows,Mac & Linux with UML,PyChecker,Debugger,GUI design,Blender & more

Integrated Java development environments set high requirements on the computer equipment.

Boa Constructor is a cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder. It offers visual frame creation and manipulation, an object inspector, many views on the source like object browsers, inheritance hierarchies, doc string generated html documentation, an advanced debugger...



Hacker Pad is a convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way.




Embitz is a free C/C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users working in the field of embedded software development Finally, an IDE with all the features you need and operation across different targets (ARM, MSP430, PIC, ...).


"Sally - A Simple C++ IDE" is a GPL multi-compiler C++ IDE for WindowsXP/2000.



Features of Simple Code Editor include: Theming, Emmet support, a minimalist interface, syntax highlighting, and more.




Sally is a C++ focused software, Eric is a Python and Ruby IDE. You cannot use Sally to do the same thing as Eric.