Top 6 Best Free Code Editors!

With so many code editors for programming, you may find it troube to choose the best of them for you. Make your life easy with this list of the Top 6 source code and text editor software for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms.

These softwares can be used standalone or used with other softwares / ides.

6 Best Free Code Editors for Windows, Linux and Mac!

1) Visual Studio 

Visual Studio is Microsoft's offering for an idea. This feature packed code editor is one of the best and most popular choice for some serious programming. This can also be integrated into other software like Unity, etc. You can also get extensions for more functionality and code completing is also available.

Platform: Windows, Mac

2) Notepad++

Notepad++ is a suitable replacement for notepad with a classic ui. You'll get autocompletion, macro recording and playback and much more features. This lightweight software also consumes very less power than it's competitors.

Platform: Windows

3) Visual Studio Code

VS Code is much of a lightweight version of Visual Studio. This small but powerful code editor has auto- completion and extension support and is popularly used for lite coding and data science.

Platform: Windows, Linux & Mac

Also read: Top 7 Visual Studio Code extensions!

4) Atom

Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in JavaScript, and more. Atom is a desktop application built using web technologies. It also got a cool UI.

Platform: Windows, macOS and Linux

5) Geany

Geany is a lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK, including basic IDE features. It is designed to have short load times, with limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. 

Platform: Windows, Mac, inux and more

6) Gedit

gedit is the default text editor of the GNOME desktop environment and part of the GNOME Core Applications. Designed as a general-purpose text editor, gedit focuses simplicity and ease of use, with a clean and simple GUI.

Platform: Linux, Windows

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Points to consider while choosing a code editor.

• Extensions
• Autocomplete feature
• In-built compiler
• Built-in Debugging
• Drag and Drop GUI features
• Multiple OS support
• Ease of use