IntelliJ by Jetbrains

• well known & common
• great code hinting
• fairly easy (for and IDE) to set up
• not free
• proprietary

Eclipse

• free & open source
• used to be common
• been around a long time
• bit harder to set up & configure

Visual Studio

• by microsoft
• proprietary
• good modern look
• common

Netbeans

• open source
• used to be common
• been around a long time
• bit easier then Eclipse to set up

KDevelop

• open source
• been around a long time
• cross-platform
• modern look

Emacs

• open source
• common
• lots of plugins avilable
• you can do anything with this and the right plugins
• Doom Emacs -- make emacs simular to vim

To get doom emacs installed on m-series mac I had issues that the following solved:

1. brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus -- formula for macos that offers extra functionality
2. brew install emacs-plus --with-native-comp --with-modern-papirus-icon
3. then normal doom-emacs install worked like a gem.

VScode

• Popular
• lots of plugins avilable
• simple to get started with
• fairly configurable
• modern looking
• plugins can easily affect startup time and memory load.

VScodium — VSCode without the microsoft

• more private then VScode
• completely open-source
• lots of plugins avilable (can plugins designed or VScode)
• simple to get started with
• fairly configurable
• modern looking
• plugins can easily affect startup time and memory load.

Vim — more information about Vim on my Notes Page

• runs in CLI
• Popular
• been around a long time
• very configurable
• hard to get started with
• likely already on your system
• easy to use on remote servers
• easy to backup/restore configuration

NeoVim — more information about NeoVim on my Notes Page (personally highly rated)

• runs in CLI
• easy to install
• hard to get started with
• avilable for every system I can think of
• very configurable
• easy to use on remote servers
• easy to backup/restore configuration
• has modern plugins avilable
• powerful
• quick start to writing your own config file
• LunarVim -- opinionated setup for neovim that installs in a seprate confg space from neovim
• LazyVim -- opinionated setup for neovim that is easy to customize
• AstroNvim -- opinionated setup for neovim
• NVChad -- opinionated setup for neovim that is fairly easy to customize
• COC — Conguer of Compleation — depends on node and doesn't use lua
• uses standard vim keybindings

Pulsar

• Community fork of old Atom editor
• github repo
• built with Electron
• more up to date then Atom editor

Onivim

• Vim like keybidings
• easy to setup & install
• looks a lot like VScode
• still in early development
• proprietary?

Zed (personally highly rated)

• has Vim like mode
• mostly written in Rust
• fast
• modern looking
• now is open-source
• doesn't seem to have plugins at the moment

My Thoughts: Looks really nice and promising. Really needs a few features that I'm used to in NeoVim for me to consider further.

Lapce

• looks a lot like VScode
• still in early development
• fast
• built with Rust
• built in "vim mode"
• open source

Kate

• easy to setup & install
• open source
• created by KDE
• looks very good
• I personally had a few bugs trying to change some options on the windows & macos install

Brackets

• easy to setup & install
• looks simular to VScode
• open source
• made with JavaScript
• suports extensions & has extension manager included
• light weight

Kakoune

• Modal editor
• orthogonal design
• runs in terminal
• good out the door experiance

Amp

• runs in terminal
• written in rust
• a lot is pre-included
• no plugins
• vim like keybidings for simple movement
• simple to learn and use
• good out of box experiance
• not very powerful

Notepad++

• windows only
• Dated looking to me.
• Its been around awhile
• has some stable plugins avilable

Sublime Text

• proprietary
• free to use (under most conditions)
• great modern look
• easy to use from starte
• no plugins really

VSCodium

• open source
• created from vscode
• basicly this is vscode without the Microsoft

Geany

• open source
• no plugins?
• decent UI
• easy to use out of the box

Helix

• great looking out of the box
• no plugin system currently (still in development)
• stable
• powerful
• keybidings are "simular" to vim.
  • just as powerful
  • switched around in order
• built on rust.

Micro

• simple
• cli based
• built on GoLang.

jmigpin go editor

• simple
• completely written in Go

vscode web

• almost exact copy of the full vs code
• works on most anything that runs a modern web browser

cloud 9

• amazon controlled
• fairly full IDE
• cost is based on CPU & storage inline with AWS services.
• integrated into amazon's aws service
• requires account

phoenix

• fairly full IDE
• new & in development
• inclues nice markdown preview for markdown files
• linter issues window
• based off of the editor Brackets

replit

• Good Collaberation
• simple to us requires sign up
• free for public use
• easy to use
• good for beginners
• has simple code examples in many languages

code anywhere

• code highlighting
• Good Full IDE
• support for many languages
• $3.00 / user / month min
• integrated ssh console
• supports collaboration
• supports pair programming
• Android & ios & web apps

shiftedit

• min $6.oo / month / user
• fairly powerful IDE
• realtime collaboration
• terminal support

stackblitz

made to quickly get started with Angular or React coding

• free for public projects
• sync with public github projects
• min $8.00 / user / month
• has a minimal console & editor
• no Online IDE after last update, instead you use your own and it uses a CLI to manage volume mounting and ssh'ing into their VMs
• Quick online text editors with IDE like features
• These are great way to share code quickly either with a person or with a group
• quick to start a fresh environment with Nuxt, React, vanilla js, Vue, Angular, Node.js, Static HTML, Astro, Svelte, Koa, Express, Egg, and more.

gitpod

• feels a bit like vscode editor
• pulls a git repo and runs it in a container
• free for 50 hours a month

google cloud shell editor

• Custom VS Code editor
• free to try/limited use per month?
• most compleate coding environment I've ever experianced in the browser
• really great if you are already using google cloud
• can transfer code between it and your local vscode install

raspberrypi editor

• speclizes python but more languages will be added later
• simple clean interface
• designed with young kids in mind
• no login needed to view/use.

Code Sandbox

• speclizes in React, Vue, and other frontend web coding frameworks.
• live integrated web preview
• no login needed to view/use.

Code Share

Emphasis on sharing code and has a video chat option. Its a bit slow to startup sometimes but doesn't require a login to use.

codepen

free to use option

jsbin

• simple
• quick
• no account needed

jsfiddle

Popular choice for a long time, doesn't require login to use. It also includes a fair amount of boilerplates to get you started.

Codiad

• PHP based software for you to install on your own server
• active development seems to have stoped a few years ago.