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ActionScript

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IDE License Windows Linux macOS Other platforms Debugger GUI builder Profiler Static code analysis MXML Export to Mobile
Adobe Animate Proprietary Yes No Yes JVM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Flash Builder Proprietary Yes No Yes JVM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IntelliJ IDEA Proprietary Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Powerflasher FDT Proprietary Yes Yes Yes JVM Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Ada

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IDE License
Windows
Other platforms GUI builder Profiler Code coverage Static code analysis Latest stable release
Eclipse w/ AonixADT[1] EPL Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris Yes Yes[2] No Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown No Yes December 2009
SlickEdit Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Solaris, Solaris SPARC, AIX, HP-UX Yes No No No No Yes No No Yes 2018
Understand Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Solaris No No No No No Yes Yes No Yes December 2015

Assembly

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IDE License Windows Linux macOS Other platforms Debugger Assemblers Auto-complete Macros/templates Latest stable release
Fresh EUPL and 2-clause BSD Yes Yes No Unknown No FASM Unknown Unknown 1.73.04 / April 30, 2018
SASM GPL Yes Yes No Unknown Yes NASM, MASM, GAS and FASM Yes Yes 3.10.1 / 8 October 2018
SlickEdit Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Solaris, Solaris SPARC, AIX, HP-UX No MASM, High Level Assembly, Linux Assembly, OS/390 Assembly Yes Yes 2018

BASIC

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IDE License Windows Linux macOS Developer Other platforms Latest stable release
Basic4android Proprietary Yes No No Anywhere Software cross-compile from Windows to Android 2018-03-20
Gambas GPL No Yes No Benoît Minisini FreeBSD, Cygwin 2019-11-19
Microsoft Small Basic MIT License Yes No No Microsoft 2015-10-01
MonoDevelop LGPL Yes Yes Yes Xamarin and the Mono community FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris 2016-01-28
PBASIC Stamp Editor Proprietary Yes No Yes Parallax Inc 2014-07-02[3]
PureBasic Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Fantaisie Software AmigaOS 2024-03-27[4]
SharpDevelop MIT[5] Yes No No ICSharpCode Team 2015-07-14
SlickEdit Proprietary Yes Yes Yes SlickEdit Solaris, Solaris SPARC, AIX, HP-UX 2018
Xojo Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Xojo, Inc. Web 2015-12-17

C/C++

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C#

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IDE License Developer Latest stable release Windows Linux macOS Other platforms
Microsoft Visual Studio Proprietary

Community Edition: Freeware

Microsoft 17.14.7  / June 23, 2025 Yes No Yes
MonoDevelop LGPL Xamarin and the Mono community 7.6.9.22 / September 21, 2018 Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris
SharpDevelop MIT[23] IC#Code Team 5.1 / April 14, 2016 Yes No No
SlickEdit Proprietary SlickEdit October 2016 Yes Yes Yes Solaris, Solaris SPARC, AIX, HP-UX
Understand Proprietary SciTools 814 / December 4, 2015 Yes Yes Yes Solaris
Visual Studio Code source code(MIT License) - binary(Proprietary) Microsoft 1.105.1 / 15 October 2025 Yes Yes Yes
Xamarin Studio source code(MIT License) - binary(Proprietary) Microsoft December 2016 Yes Yes Yes
Eclipse EPL Eclipse Foundation 4.7  / June 28, 2017 Yes Yes Yes
Rider Proprietary JetBrains 2024.3  / November 13, 2024 Yes Yes Yes

Lisp

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Common Lisp

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IDE License Windows Linux macOS Other platforms Editor Debugger GUI builder Profiler Browsers
Allegro Common Lisp Proprietary Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX Yes Yes Yes Yes Class browser, Systems, Definitions
LispWorks Proprietary Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris Yes Yes Yes Yes Class browser, Functions, Errors, Processes, Symbols, Systems
SLIME (Emacs) portions in GPL v2, LGPL, BSD and public domain Yes Yes Yes DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, DOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenVMS, OS/2, Solaris, other Unix Yes Yes No Yes Class browser, Errors, Symbols

Emacs Lisp

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IDE License Windows Linux macOS Other platforms Editor Debugger GUI builder Profiler Limitations
GNU Emacs GPLv3 Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku Yes (built-in) Yes (Edebug, IELM) Yes (via packages like Emacs Widget Library) Yes (e.g., elp, profiler.el) General-purpose text editor extended into a full IDE via Lisp

Component Pascal

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Eiffel

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License Other platforms Code coverage Static code analysis GUI-based design Class browser Latest stable release
GPL and commercial Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenVMS, Solaris, VxWorks, other Unix Yes Yes Yes Yes Automatic testing framework Yes Type checking, Void-safety, Metrics tool BON / UML class diagramming Multi-view 20.05, 2020

Erlang

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Fortran

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IDE License Platform Developer Latest stable release
Code::Blocks GPL Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Code::Blocks Team 25.03[7] / March 31, 2025
Geany GPL Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, AIX, OpenBSD, Solaris, other Unix Team 1.37.1 / November 8, 2020
KDevelop GPL Linux KDevelop Team 5.5.1 (May 5, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-05-05)) [±]
NetBeans Apache License Windows, Linux, macOS NetBeans Community 27[24] Edit this on Wikidata (22 August 2025) [±]
OpenWatcom OSI Approved Windows, Linux, DOS, OS/2 OpenWatcom Community 1.9 / June 2, 2010
Understand Proprietary Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, other Unix SciTools December 4, 2015
Simply Fortran Proprietary Windows, Linux, macOS Approximatrix, LLC 3.38 / December 20, 2024
SlickEdit Proprietary Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, Solaris, Solaris SPARC, HP-UX SlickEdit October 2016
IntelliJ IDEA ASLv2 Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris JetBrains September 2017

F#

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Groovy

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IDE License Written in Java only Windows Linux macOS Other platforms GUI builder
Eclipse GDT EPL No Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris No
IntelliJ IDEA ASLv2, proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris No
NetBeans Apache License Yes Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Yes
SlickEdit Proprietary No Yes Yes Yes Solaris, Solaris SPARC, AIX, HP-UX No

Haskell

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IDE License Platforms Latest stable release Developer
EclipseFP plugin EPL? JVM 2.6.4 / January 19, 2015 eclipsefp.github.io
SlickEdit Proprietary Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Solaris SPARC October 2016 SlickEdit

Haxe

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Go to this page: Comparison of IDE choices for Haxe programmers

Java

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Java has strong IDE support, due not only to its historical and economic importance, but also due to a combination of reflection and static-typing making it well-suited for IDE support.[fact or opinion?] Some of the leading Java IDEs (such as IntelliJ and Eclipse) are also the basis for leading IDEs in other programming languages (e.g. for Python, IntelliJ is rebranded as PyCharm, and Eclipse has the PyDev plugin.)

Open

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IDE License LSP Written in Java only Windows Linux macOS Other platforms GUI builder Profiling RDBMS EE Limitations
Android Studio Apache License (based on IntelliJ IDEA) No Yes Yes Yes Yes ChromeOS Yes Yes Yes No Not a general-purpose IDE; focused on Android app development
BlueJ GPL2+GNU linking exception No Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris No Not a General IDE; a small scale UML editor
DrJava Permissive No Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris No Java 8 only (2014)
Eclipse JDT EPL Yes No[27] Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris Yes Yes Yes Yes
Geany GPL No No Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, AIX, OpenBSD, Solaris, other Unix No
Greenfoot GPL No Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris No Not a General IDE; a 2D Game builder
NetBeans Apache License No Yes Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Yes Yes No Yes Multi folder Maven not supported
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition Apache License v2.0 No Yes Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Yes No No No
Visual Studio Code MIT License Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No stack trace console.

Closed

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IDE License Written in Java only Windows Linux macOS Other platforms GUI builder Limitations
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Yes
JBuilder Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes
JDeveloper Proprietary (freeware) Yes Yes Yes Yes generic JVM Yes
jGRASP Proprietary (freeware) Yes Yes Yes Yes No
MyEclipse Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris Yes
Rational Application Developer Proprietary Yes Yes Yes No AIX, Solaris Yes
SlickEdit Proprietary No Yes Yes Yes Solaris, Solaris SPARC, AIX, HP-UX No
Understand Proprietary No Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes
Xcode (Apple) Proprietary No No No Yes Yes No code formating

JavaScript

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Julia

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IDE License Windows Linux macOS Other platforms Debugger Profiler Notes
Atom (with Juno extension) MIT License[31] Yes Yes Yes ? Yes[32] Yes[33] Has a plotting pane. Juno team merged with VS Code extension team (see below); Juno now in maintenance mode.
Emacs / spacemacs portions in GPL v2, LGPL, BSD and public domain Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD Yes Yes ESS extension support for emacs. vi support also available, e.g. in spacemacs (useful for pair programming).
Visual Studio Code (using the Julia extension) MIT License Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD[34] Yes Yes (i.e. flame graph viewing support) Has a plotting pane. License is for the extension; and Microsoft's source code (only).

Lua

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IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Decoda Unknown Worlds Entertainment 1.16 / October 25, 2011 Windows GPL[35]
SlickEdit SlickEdit October 2016 Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Solaris SPARC Proprietary
ZeroBrane Studio Paul Kulchenko, ZeroBrane LLC 1.80 / October 7, 2018 Windows, macOS/Mac, Linux MIT License

Pascal, Object Pascal

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IDE Developer Latest stable release Windows Linux macOS Other platforms Mobiles Debugger GUI builder License Autocomplete
Delphi Embarcadero Technologies Delphi 10.4.2 (Sydney) / February 24 2021 Yes No No cross-compile to macOS, Android, iOS Linux[36] Yes Yes Yes Proprietary Yes
Free Pascal IDE Volunteers 3.2.2 / May 20, 2021 Yes Yes Yes AmigaOS, Android, FreeBSD, Game Boy Advance, Haiku, AIX, iOS, MorphOS, DOS, NetBSD, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD, OS/2, Solaris, Windows CE, JVM, LLVM (experimental), JavaScript transpiler, Embedded systems. Yes Yes No GPL; LGPL with static linking exception No
KDevelop KDevelop Team 5.5.1 (May 5, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-05-05)) [±] (only 3.x supports Pascal) Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, other Unix No No No GPL
Lazarus Volunteers 3.0.0 / December 21, 2023 Yes Yes Yes See Free Pascal Yes Yes Yes GPL; LGPL with static linking exception Yes
Morfik Morfik Technology Pty Ltd. 2.0.5.27 Yes Yes Yes compiles to HTML+CSS+XML+JavaScript (web apps) Yes Yes Yes Proprietary
MSEide Martin Schreiber 4.6 / 2017-11-24 Yes Yes No FreeBSD Yes Yes Yes GPL; LGPL with static linking exception for the library MSEgui
Understand SciTools 4.0 / April 2015 Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes No Yes Proprietary
Visual Studio via Oxygene RemObjects Software 10.0 / August 2018 Yes and additional Water IDE No Yes via Fire IDE JVM, .NET, Mono, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Android, iOS, WebAssembly, cross compile to Linux Yes Yes Yes Proprietary; free compiler Yes
Dev-Pascal Bloodshed Software 1.9.2 (using FPC 1.9.2 from 2005) Yes No No No Yes No GPL
PascalABC.NET PascalABC.NET Compiler Team 3.9 / July 10, 2023 Yes Yes Yes compiles to CLR No Yes Yes LGPL Yes

Perl

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IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Eclipse EPIC EPIC Project Team 0.6.44 / April 18, 2012 Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris CPL
Geany Team 1.37.1 / November 8, 2020 Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, AIX, OpenBSD, Solaris, other Unix GPL
Komodo IDE / Edit ActiveState 9.0.1 / April 19, 2015 Cross-platform Proprietary
NetBeans Sun Microsystems / Oracle 27[24] Edit this on Wikidata (22 August 2025) [±] Cross-platform Apache License
Padre Padre Team 1.0 / November 8, 2013 Cross-platform Perl
JetBrains IDEs (via plugin)[37] Alexandr Evstigneev 2019.1.3 / May 25, 2019 Cross-platform Apache 2.0
SlickEdit SlickEdit October 2016 Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX Proprietary

PHP

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IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License Autocomplete Debugger Refactoring support VCS Support
Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Systems - Cross-platform Proprietary Yes No No No
Aptana Studio Aptana, Inc. December 2013, 3.5.0 Cross-platform GPL, proprietary Yes Yes No via plugins
CodeLite CodeLite January 2023, 17.0 Cross-platform GPL Yes Yes No Git, SVN
Codelobster Codelobster 2.4 / September 11, 2023 Cross-platform Proprietary Yes Yes No via plugins
Eclipse Che Eclipse Foundation / Zend 4.7 / September 2, 2016 Cross-platform EPL Yes Yes Yes Unknown
Eclipse PDT Eclipse Foundation / Zend 7.0 / December 18, 2019 Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris EPL Yes Yes Yes CVS, Git, Mercurial, SVN (via plugins)
Geany Geany Team 1.37.1 / November 8, 2020 Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, AIX, OpenBSD, Solaris, other Unix GPL Yes No No via plugins
HyperEdit Jonathan Deutsch / Tumult 1.6 / April 30, 2008 macOS Proprietary Yes No No No
KDevelop KDE KDevelop Team 5.5.1 (May 5, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-05-05)) [±] Cross-platform GPL Yes No Unknown CVS, Git, SVN
Komodo IDE / Edit ActiveState 10.0.1 (June 2016) Cross-platform Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, SVN
NetBeans Sun Microsystems / Oracle 27[24] Edit this on Wikidata (22 August 2025) [±] Cross-platform on Netbeans Apache License Yes Yes Yes CVS, Git, Mercurial, SVN
PHPEclipse (Eclipse) PHPEclipse project team 1.2.2 / September 2009 Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris CPL Yes Yes Unknown Unknown
PHPEdit WaterProof SARL 3.6.4 (April 9, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-04-09)) [±] Windows Proprietary Yes Yes No CVS, SVN
PhpStorm (IntelliJ IDEA) JetBrains 2019.1 / 28 March 2019 Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Proprietary Yes Yes Yes CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, SVN
SlickEdit SlickEdit October 2016 Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris Proprietary Yes Yes No Yes
Zend Studio Zend 10.6 / February 2014 Cross-platform Proprietary Yes Yes Yes CVS, Git, SVN, others (via plugins)

Python

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Active

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Python IDEs in active development

Obsolete

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Python IDEs no longer in development

R

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IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
R Tools for Visual Studio Microsoft March 10, 2017 (2017-03-10), v1.0 RC3 Microsoft Windows Apache License 2.0
RStudio RStudio, Inc. October 29, 2018 (2018-10-29), v1.1.463 Cross-platform AGPL

Racket

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IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
DrRacket PLT Design, Inc. 26 October 2018, v7.1 Cross-platform LGPL

Ruby

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IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Aptana Studio with integrated RadRails plugin (Eclipse) Aptana, Inc. 3.5.0 / December 27, 2013 Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris GPL, proprietary
Eclipse DLTK Ruby Plugin Eclipse Foundation 5.0.0 / June 6, 2013 x86 EPL
eric Detlev Offenbach 6.1.4 / April 9, 2016 Cross-platform GPLv3 "or later"
Komodo IDE / Edit ActiveState 9.0.1 / April 19, 2015 Cross-platform Proprietary
RubyMine (IntelliJ IDEA) JetBrains 2018.3.5 (build 183.5912.16) / Feb 27, 2019[43] Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Proprietary
SlickEdit SlickEdit October 2016 Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX Proprietary

Rust

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IDE License Windows Linux macOS Debugger Snippets Code completion Code Formatting
Atom MIT License Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Proprietary No No Yes No Yes No Yes
CLion Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Eclipse Eclipse Public License Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Kate GNU General Public License Yes Yes poor quality No Yes Yes Yes
RustRover Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sublime Text Proprietary Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Textadept MIT License Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
Visual Studio Code MIT License Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zed AGPL, GPL, Apache License Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Scala

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Smalltalk

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IDE Developer License Windows Linux macOS Other platforms Debugger GUI builder
Dolphin Smalltalk Object Arts MIT License Yes No No No Yes Yes
Pharo INRIA MIT License Yes Yes Yes various Yes Yes
Squeak squeak.org MIT License Yes Yes Yes various Yes Yes
VisualAge IBM Proprietary Yes Yes Yes various Yes Yes
VisualWorks Cincom Proprietary Yes Yes Yes various Yes Yes

Tcl

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Unclassified

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Visual Basic .NET

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IDE Developer License Written in First Release Latest Stable Release Windows macOS Linux
Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Proprietary C++ 2001 16.9.15 / 14 December 2021 Yes Yes No
Visual Studio Code[44] Microsoft[45] MIT[45] TypeScript[45] 0.10.1 / 13 November 2015[46] 1.70.2 / 15 August 2022[47] Yes[48] Yes[48] Yes[48]

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