Lapce Alternatives

Lapce is described as 'Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Lapce for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Lapce alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lapce are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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Kakoune
21 likes
Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.
95 Kakoune alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
France
EU
Platforms
Mac
Linux
Cygwin
France
EU
Good alternative?Is Kakoune a good alternative to Lapce?
Textadept
38 likes
Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...
99 Textadept alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
United States
Good alternative?Is Textadept a good alternative to Lapce?
Mousepad
35 likes
A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.
80 Mousepad alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Flathub
Xfce
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is Mousepad a good alternative to Lapce?
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Light Table
60 likes
Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
IDE
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Electron / Atom Shell
+3
Good alternative?Is Light Table a good alternative to Lapce?
Nova
8 likes
The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
135 Nova alternatives
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
United States
+3
Good alternative?Is Nova a good alternative to Lapce?
Textastic
16 likes
Textastic is an advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH.
74 Textastic alternatives
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Mac
iPhone
iPad
Germany
EU
+9
Good alternative?Is Textastic a good alternative to Lapce?
RustRover
5 likes
Enjoy full support when running your code inside the Rust IDE, be it for testing purposes, debugging, benchmarking, profiling, or targeting different platforms.
Cost / License
Free Personal
Proprietary
Application type
IDE
Origin
Czechia
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Flathub
Flatpak
Czechia
EU
Good alternative?Is RustRover a good alternative to Lapce?
Pluma
17 likes
Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...
161 Pluma alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
International
Platforms
Linux
Global
Good alternative?Is Pluma a good alternative to Lapce?
1DevTool
2 likes
1DevTool saves developers 40+ minutes every day by eliminating the constant switching between Chrome, terminal, AI tools, and notes apps. One workspace. Zero interruptions.
Cost / License
Freemium
Proprietary
Application type
IDE
Platforms
Windows
Mac
Linux
+3
Good alternative?Is 1DevTool a good alternative to Lapce?
jEdit
114 likes
jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...
148 jEdit alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
International
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Global
Good alternative?Is jEdit a good alternative to Lapce?
Ox editor
4 likes
Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Platforms
Mac
Linux
Good alternative?Is Ox editor a good alternative to Lapce?
GNOME Builder
21 likes
Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.
64 GNOME Builder alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
IDE
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Flathub
GNOME
Flatpak
United States
+4
Good alternative?Is GNOME Builder a good alternative to Lapce?