Top Text Editors for Programmers in 2020

Top Free Text Editors For Software Developemnt

Both Software Developer and Web Developer all start with a  lines of code. This code is written in  is called a Text Editor or  Code Editor or IDE [Integrated Development Environment].

Today I’ve prepared a list of the best, in my opinion, code editors for Software / Web Developers.

• Visual Studio Code  [VS Code]

Visual Studio Code Screenshot taken form VSCode Website

Visual Studio Code is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is free and open-source.

   Key features:

• Debugging;

• Embedded Git control;

• Syntax highlighting;

• Intelligent code completion;

• Snippets;

• Code refactoring;

• Customization.

• Atom

Atom  Screenshot taken form Atom Website

Key Features:

• Atom is open source

• A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

• Cross-platform editing

• Built-in package manager

• Packages

• Themes

• Customization

• Sublime Text 

sublimetext Screenshot taken form sublimetext website

• Brackets

Brackets Screenshot taken form Brackets Website

• Notepad ++

Notepad ++ Screenshot taken form Notepad++ Website