Ide Or Text Editor reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 345 Reddit reviews across 17 subreddits and 29 posts to rank the best Ide Or Text Editor brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/laravel, r/cpp, r/learnjava, r/learnprogramming, r/Python. Top-rated brands include JetBrains (4.2/5), Microsoft (4.0/5), Sublime Text (4.2/5).

Stats

Reviews345

Subreddits17

Posts29

Brands48

Products13

Top communities

r/laravel81 r/cpp54 r/learnjava43 r/learnprogramming38 r/Python24

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JetBrains

4.2

(121)

"PhpStorm with the Laravel Idea plugin. It's otherworldly good."

"PhpStorm, combine with plugins like PHP Inspection EA Extended, Laravel Idea and Finally if you want extra power add Github Co-pilot"

"Phpstorm is miles ahead"

"PhpStorm by 100 miles. Probably the only bit of software I don't begrudge paying for."

"Phpstorm with laravel idea plugin. Before i could afford to pay for software, for 4 years, I used vs code with 100ish plugins."

"PhpStorm is truly incredible! It can be a bit bulky, so for light edits I still use Sublime or VS Code, but the productivity in PhpStorm is unparalleled."

"PhpStorm together with the Laravel Idea plugin is 👌👌👌👌"

"PHPStorm with Laravel idea. If you’re earning with laravel it’s a no brainer nothing comes close."

"Paid = PhpStorm, Free = VSCode."

"PHPStorm + LaravelIdea."

Microsoft

4.0

(79)

"Vs studio by a mile. Especially with the Laravel packages and the available ai packages."

"For the last two years I have been using VS Code with some extensions. It is free, fast and awesome."

"Visual Studio is hard to beat for C++ and C# coding on Windows."

"If you are on Windows, VS is 10x+ better than anything else."

"On Window, Visual Studio is the best. You have sensible remote development tool."

"If you are on Windows and need free IDE then Visual Studio is a way to go. It works out of the box, provides a lot of nice features and really is an all-rounder."

"I use Visual Studio for my main work and Sublime Text for casually looking at code."

"Visual studio is the only one able to handle that size though, other IDEs struggle."

"Visual Studio has the best debugging tools and the best performance profiler available."

"Vs code hands down."

Sublime Text

4.2

(22)

"Nothing beats SublimeText for me. Phpstorm is great but comes with a lot of bells and whistles that I don’t use, and it’s pretty slow compared to Sublime."

"Sublime text is good for any sized project. I’ve used it for years."

"Mainly using the syntax highlighting and autocomplete plugins"

"I'm another Sublime Text 3 + Racer + Syntax Highlighting"

"My preferred Rust editor is also Sublime Text"

"Which IMO is the best text editor out there"

"Laravel is built with sublime text. So there cannot be any other 'better' IDE than the one it is built with."

"I've used sublime professionally for at least 5 years and love it."

"Switched to sublime text and now use it for everything I do, even non php projects."

"Notepad++ or sublime for random scripts"

Atom

3.6

(16)

"I'd recommend atom, sublime or vs code."

"When I was starting out not too long ago, I used Atom to write my classes and I would run them via command line."

"I really like Atom, It has a lot of customization choices and you can install packages from the application."

"Atom text editor. There are a ton of python plugins you can customize it with."

"I'm partial to Atom, but many like VS Code."

"In my opinion the best editor is Atom, it has a lot of plugins, for nearly everything."

"The plugins and the find/replace console is what I love about Atom more than anything."

"Atom.io is pretty stable lately and has some great plugins including Gitkraken Glo, Python-Black, Kite, etc."

"Atom. I came from np++, tryed everything on this page. Atom is where i stuck"

"There's also Atom, which is similar to SublimeText (also good), except its produced by GitHub."

Vim

3.9

(14)

"Vim is a godsend on a slow computer where VS code runs like dogshit."

"Personally, I am using VIM to create laravel applications and I'm fine with that I don't need fancy feature and I can have great feature in vim with plugins and some key mapping."

"On a Linux/Unix platform where GUI is not used matter I might uses either vi/vim or Nano/Pico."

"Vim."

"Vim for text editor."

"Vim with small set of plugins (mostly YouCompleteMe)."

"Vim is freaking amazing it's not an IDE, it's strictly a text editor"

"I do sometimes do programming challenges in Java, and I'll generally just use vim."

"For an editor my recommendations would be Vim (terminal) or VSCode (GUI)"

"Vim all the way."

Microsoft Visual Studio

4.5

(8)

"My favourite environment for getting shit done is VisualStudio with Resharper C++ installed"

"Visual Studio. Hands down."

"Visual Studio makes every other IDE look like a toy."

"If you're writing C#/.Net code, use Visual Studio."

"Visual Studio ONLY. (The community or premium version)."

"Visual Studio is the best C++ Windows IDE by far."

"Visual Studio has a free edition. Very easy to use, great debugger and a good IDE."

"If you’re going to be completely windows based then Visual Studio is my recommendation."

Neovim

4.3

(7)

"NeoVim (with the good plugins) is the best text editor for most languages that supported by lspconfig."

"Neovim. I 100% prefer it over vscode, pycharm, etc."

"I just use nvim + intelephense (pro) + pint"

"This should also include neovim."

"Neovim."

"Terminal+Neovim+plugins."

"Seems like NeoVim is much more stable, a lot of people know the commands, it comes installed so you can use it without extensions, works in terminal."

Eclipse

3.6

(7)

"Eclipse and SpringTool"

"Eclipse"

"I personally liked eclipse when starting out and moved to intellij when I was a bit more experienced."

"The big three IDEs are: + Eclipse (free) + IntelliJ (Community Edition is free) + Netbeans (free)"

"I used vscode, eclipse, and clion."

"I used the eclipse with beginning programming with Java for Dummies."

"Why not bother with eclipse? Its one of the worlds most used IDEs."

Qt Creator

4.2

(6)

"QtCreator is the best IDE for c/c++ I've ever tried."

"This should also include Qt Creator."

"QtCreator is particularly good at some things."

"No QtCreator ? No CLion ? They're both popular IDEs."

"Qt editor"

"I like QT creator for C++."

#10

Visual Studio Code

3.8

(6)

"But on the whole I’d recommend VSCode and Pycharm for sure."

"When it comes to IDE, I always recommend Visual Studio Code."

"Visual Studio Code is a very good editor."

"Another good contender is Visual Studio Code."

"You can try Code from MS, it can install c++ add-ons."

"I think VS code is quite good for C#."

#11

Notepad++

3.7

(6)

"Notepad++ gets my vote. very fast start."

"Geany and Notepad++. Scintilla based for the win!"

"When I just want to quicky edit something I use notepad++."

"Notepad++ or sublime for random scripts"

"I was using Notepad++ and then switched to Sublime for years."

"Notepad++ then compile and run using power shell."

#12

Emacs

3.5

(6)

"I personally really love Emacs. It is essentially a Lisp interpreter, and the text editing interface is just an app written in that Lisp. This makes Emacs /very/ extensible"

"I use almost default Emacs with no packages and enjoy it a lot."

"Emacs, either with Elpy (IDE package for Python) or vanilla `python-mode`"

"Emacs"

"Emacs."

"Emacs is just unusable by default."

#13

Kate

4.0

(4)

"Kate of course ;)"

"Honourable mention to Kate for the inbetween."

"I really like Kate - it's very very simple."

"I've come to really like Kate."

#14

Geany

3.7

(3)

"Geany and Notepad++. Scintilla based for the win!"

"I teach middle and high school programming and recommend Geany. It's lightweight, fast, and supports numerous languages."

"Geany"

#15

NetBeans

3.7

(3)

"I haven't used it in some time, but back in the day I used Netbeans, just to offer another free option."

"Netbeans. Code completion (just turn off for php). The memory aid will bring you up in years in a short time."

"I use netbean"

#16

Dev-C++

4.0

(2)

"DevC++ is by FAR the best out there.... Only issue is that it has been dead for i have no clue how long."

"Dev c++"

#17

BlueJ

4.0

(2)

"It's an IDE specifically made for beginners."

"I would recommend BlueJ. It has visual representation if the objects and classes that you are writing, which is really helpful to understand the code for beginners."

#18

Replit

3.5

(2)

"Repl.it - online IDE for many different programming languages"

"Repl.it"

#19

jGRASP

3.0

3.0

(1)

"Notepadqq. It's FOSS, and very much should be familiar to users of Notepad++."

#48

Text Editor

3.0

(1)

"I would say a clean text editor."

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