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Main article: Integrated development environment

ActionScript

Ada

Assembly

BASIC

C/C++

See also: C (programming language) and C++

IDE	License	Windows	Linux	macOS	Other platforms	Written in	Debugger	GUI builder	Integrated toolchain	Profiler	Code coverage	Autocomplete	Static code analysis	GUI-based design	Class browser	Latest stable release	C compiler	C++ compiler	Refactoring
Anjuta (abandoned)	GPL	No	Yes	No	FreeBSD	C	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	2016-03	Yes	Yes	No
AppCode (IntelliJ IDEA)	Proprietary	No	No	Yes		Java	Yes	Yes	No	Yes (Xcode profiler)	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2012-12	Yes (Xcode toolchain)	Yes (Xcode toolchain)	Yes
C++Builder	Proprietary, Freeware (Starter edition only)	Yes	No (Cross compiler planned)	Yes (Cross compiler)	cross-compiles for Android and iOS	C++ and Object Pascal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (AQTime Standard in package manager)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2017-03 Tokyo 10.2	Yes	Yes	Yes
Code::Blocks	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris	C++	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[6]	Yes	2025-03^[7]	Yes (MinGW + custom)	Yes (MinGW + custom)	Yes
CodeLite	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD	C++	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (As of CodeLite 6.1, integration with Valgrind)	No	Yes	Yes	Yes^[8]	Yes	2025-01-09	Yes (GCC, Clang, VC + custom)	Yes (GCC, Clang, VC + custom)	Yes
Dev-C++	GPL	Yes	No^[9]	No	FreeBSD	Object Pascal	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	2021-01-30	Yes	Yes	No
Eclipse CDT	EPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris	C++, Java	Yes	Yes^[2]	Yes^[10]	Yes^[11]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2020-06^[12]^[13]^[14]	External	External	Yes
Geany	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, AIX, OpenBSD, Solaris, other Unix	C	Yes (via a plug-in)	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	2019-04^[15]	External	External	No
JetBrains CLion	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes		Java	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	2019-07^[16]	Yes (customizable)	Yes (customizable)	Yes
KDevelop	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, Solaris	C/C++	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2022-12-08	External	External	Yes
LabWindows/CVI	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	cross-compile to Linux, Phar Lap ETS	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	—N/a	2016-12	Yes	No	No
Microsoft Visual Studio	Proprietary, Freeware (Community edition only)	Yes	Yes (Cross compiler)^[17]	No	Mac OS 7 (v2.x-v4.x only)	C++ and C#	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2019-04	Yes	Yes	Yes (also plugin)^[18]
Visual Studio Code	MIT	Yes	Yes	Yes		TypeScript JavaScript CSS	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	2026-11-06	External	External
MonoDevelop	LGPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris	C#	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	2016-11	Yes (GCC + custom)	Yes (GCC + custom)	Yes
NetBeans C/C++ pack	Apache License	Yes	Yes	Yes	OpenBSD, Solaris	Java	Yes^[19]	Yes^[19]	No^[19]	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	?	2025-08-22^[20]	External	Yes
OpenWatcom	Sybase Open Watcom Public License	No (32-bit only)	Partial	No	FreeBSD, DOS	C/C++	Yes (GUI)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	2010-06	Yes	Yes	No
Oracle Solaris Studio	Proprietary, Freeware	No	Yes	No	Solaris	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2008-11	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pelles C IDE	Proprietary, Freeware	Yes	No	No		C	Yes	No	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	2025-05-21^[21]	Yes	Yes	?
Qt Creator	GPL / LGPL / Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, Maemo, OpenBSD, Symbian	C++	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes (clang)	Yes	Yes Rational Software Architect (Eclipse IBM)	2025-06-18^[22]	Yes	Yes	No
SlickEdit	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Solaris, Solaris SPARC, AIX, HP-UX	C++	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	2018-12	External	External	Yes
U++ TheIDE	BSD	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, Solaris	C++	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	2022-12	External	External	No
Understand	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Solaris	?	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	2015-12	No	No	Yes
Xcode (Apple)	Proprietary	No	No	Yes	cross compiles to iOS	C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	2025-12	No, llvm (llvm-gcc and gcc deprecated)	Yes, llvm (llvm-gcc and gcc deprecated)	No

C#

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	1.145.2 / 6 November 2026	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

Common Lisp

Emacs Lisp

Component Pascal

D

Eiffel

Erlang

Fortran

F#

Main article: F Sharp (programming language)


IDE	License	Windows	Linux	macOS	Developer
Microsoft Visual Studio	Proprietary (standard) Freeware (community edition)	Yes	No	Yes	Microsoft
Visual Studio Code^[25]	Proprietary (binary code) MIT License (source code)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Microsoft
Rider^[26]	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	JetBrains

Groovy

Haskell

Haxe

Java

Open

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	Yes	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				Needs Eclipse plugin. No stack trace console.
Vim	Vim	Plugin	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	BSD, Unix, iOS, Android, Haiku, AmigaOS, MorphOS	No				Needs configuration for IDE features

Closed

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 formatting

JavaScript

Julia

Lua

Pascal, Object Pascal

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 (2020-05-05)) [±] (only 3.x supports Pascal)	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, other Unix	No	No	No	GPL
Lazarus	Volunteers	4.6.0 / February 25, 2026	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

PHP

Python

Active

Python IDEs in active development

IDE	Developer	Latest stable release version	Latest stable release date	Platform	Written in	Widget toolkit	License	Python 2.x support	Python 3.x support	Debugger	GUI builder	Integrated toolchain	Profiler	Code coverage	Autocomplete	Static program analysis	GUI based design	Class browser	Code refactoring	Version control system support	Web framework support
eric	Detlev Offenbach	25.10	2025-09-29	Windows, Linux, macOS	Python	PyQt	GPLv3 "or later"	Yes, until version 4.5.25 and since version 5.5.0^[38]	Yes, since version 5.0.0^[39]	Yes, for Python 2 & 3	Yes: Qt Creator	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Yes	Multiple integrated checkers and Pylint via plug-in	Yes	Yes	Yes	Subversion and Mercurial (core plug-ins), git (optional plug-in)	Django as optional plug-in
Geany	Team	2.1	2025-07-06	Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, AIX, OpenBSD, Solaris, other Unix	C	GTK+	GPL	Unknown	Yes	No	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
KDevelop	KDE KDevelop Team	25.8.1	2025-09	Cross-platform	C, C++	Qt	GPL	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, SVN	Unknown
PyCharm	JetBrains	2025.2.2	2025-09-22	Windows, Linux, macOS	Java, Python	Swing	Open core: Full version under Apache License 2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Yes (full version only)	Yes (full version only)	Yes	Yes PEP 8 and others	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PyDev / LiClipse (plug-in for Eclipse and Aptana)	Appcelerator	13.1.0	2025-09-21	Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, JVM, Solaris	Python	SWT	EPL	Yes	Yes	Yes (also remote, container, cluster, multi-threaded, and multi-process debugging)	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spyder	Team	6.0.8	2025-08-27	Windows, Linux, macOS, Qt	Python	Qt5/Qt6 with PyQt or PySide	MIT	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unknown
VS Code^[40]	Microsoft	1.140.0	2026-09-30	Cross-platform	C++ and C#	Windows Forms and WPF, through IronPython	MIT	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes^[41]	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	Basic refactoring	Yes	Yes
Wing	Wingware	12.1.2	2026-03-10	Windows, Linux, macOS	Python	Qt5 with PyQt	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes (also remote, container, cluster, multi-threaded, and multi-process debugging)	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Obsolete

Python IDEs no longer in development

IDE	Developer	Latest stable release version	Latest stable release date	Platform	Written in	Widget toolkit	License	Python 2.x support	Python 3.x support	Debugger	GUI builder	Integrated toolchain	Profiler	Code coverage	Autocomplete	Static program analysis	GUI based design	Class browser	Code refactoring	Version control system support	Web framework support
IDLE	Guido van Rossum et al.	3.12.9	2025-02-04	Cross-platform	Python	Tkinter	PSFL	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Unknown	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown	No	No
Komodo IDE	ActiveState	12.0.1	2020-11-09	Cross-platform	Unknown	Mozilla platform	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, SVN	Unknown
Ninja-IDE	Team	2.4	2019-06-23^[42]	Cross-platform	Python	PyQt	GPL	Yes (Python 2.7)	Yes	Yes (with wdebugger plugin)	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Thonny	Aivar Annamaa	4.1.7	2024-12-16	Windows, Linux, macOS	Python	Unknown	MIT	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

R

Main article: R (programming language)

IDE	Developer	Latest stable release	Platform	License
Eclipse StatET (plug-in for Eclipse)	Stephan Wahlbrink	June 12, 2025 (2025-06-12), v4.11.0	Cross-platform	Apache License 2.0
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

Ruby

Rust

Scala

Smalltalk

Tcl

Unclassified

Visual Basic .NET

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