A free source code editor
Notepad++ is a free, lightweight source code editor for Windows supporting syntax highlighting for dozens of languages and a large plugin library.
Fast, minimal code editor
Sublime Text is a famously quick editor with multi-cursor editing and a tidy interface. It has no built-in AI assistance out of the box.
The fast, collaborative code editor
Zed is a native, GPU-accelerated code editor built in Rust that combines extreme performance with built-in AI assistance and real-time multiplayer collaboration.
Code editing. Redefined.
Visual Studio Code is Microsoft's free, extensible code editor with a massive extension marketplace, integrated terminal, debugging, and AI assistant integrations.
AI-first code editor
Cursor is a VS Code-based editor where an AI agent reads your repository, writes multi-file changes and explains unfamiliar code.
The next-generation IDE by JetBrains
Fleet is JetBrains' lightweight, distributed code editor that can scale up into a full IDE with smart code assistance and remote development support.
Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Neovim is a modernized, extensible fork of Vim offering a highly configurable, terminal-based text editing experience with a rich plugin ecosystem.