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General Discussion

Do i have to buy a text editor?

Do i need to buy a text editor?

4 Answers

No, you do not need to buy a text editor!

You have a large number of free text editors to choose from and top rated!

I would recommend SublimeText and Atom.io! See them in action on Youtube or check Google!

If you are a certified developer and working on large or multiple projects you can upgrade!

andren
andren
28,558 Points

Not at all, while there are good paid web IDEs (I personally enjoy Webstorm), there are plenty of great completely free text editors to use that are used and enjoyed by tons of professionals. They should certainly be more than enough for you as a beginner.

My personal favorites among free editors is Atom and Visual Studio Code. Both of those are completely free, and are fully featured and popular. With tons of community support in the forms of plugins that add additional functionality and the like.

Robert Clausen
Robert Clausen
12,336 Points

Looks like you have plenty of answer however, thought I would throw in my preference and why. I used to use activestates free komodo ide but now I have gravitated to Notepad ++. I like notepad ++ because is supports a large number of different programming languages, and I do dabble in quite a few, offers code completion and highlighting that makes looking at your code 'easier' for errors etc. It offers plugins that allow data conversion for analysis etc. Allows you to write in one OS platform while saving can be compatible with another. You can install a plugin, with the plugin top menu, that allows you to add the ability to ssh connect and manage files on a remote server.... And so much more.

Hello Bharat,

Most text editors are free, although some are paid. One that I personally love is atom.io and it is completely free and made by GitHub. VIM is great too and you run it through the command line. A great paid one is Sublime which is $70 or £45. It's up to you now.

Hope this helps.