VSCodium Alternatives

VSCodium is described as 'This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to VSCodium for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best VSCodium alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like VSCodium are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Vim and Zed Editor.

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  1. roobuilder icon
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    It's a cross between Glade / Visual Studio — the idea is that most 'action' code for an application is actually quite simple - so entering the code on the event handlers for a widget makes the proximity of code to action better.

    54 roobuilder alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  2. Kod icon
     22 likes

    Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X

    Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod

    Goals and features

    Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

    Integrated scripting environment based on No.

    48 Kod alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. Howl icon
     6 likes

    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.

    144 Howl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Java-Editor icon
     4 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Araneae icon
     3 likes

    Lightweight text editor featuring syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, instant browser preview even unsaved, tabbed documents, drag-and-drop for files and images, customizable quick clips, and a streamlined design focused on web coding.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Deep Code icon
     2 likes

    Use DeepSeek V4 Pro on Claude Code — zero setup, no usage limits, 95% cheaper, and everything just works right out of the box.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  7. TotalEdit icon
     2 likes

    TotalEdit is a powerful notepad replacement and text editor. Packed full of features to help everyone from office workers, journalists through to programmers and web site editors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. metapad icon
     43 likes

    Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...

    106 metapad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9.  Like

    Smallest Vi-clone text editor for Windows (62KB) that runs in terminal and SSH sessions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Scribes icon
     24 likes

    A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.

    Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.

    The res.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. BabelPad icon
     5 likes

    BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.

    153 BabelPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  12. KillerShell icon
     1 like

    KillerShell puts a file browser, a terminal and a text editor in one window, on one tab strip and one set of keys, so you stop alt-tabbing.

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    • Windows
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