
A hackable text editor for the 21st CenturyĪtom has native support for dozens of different programming languages, Python, Perl, C/C++, Java, and CoffeeScript, among them.

GitHub developed Atom based on Electron (formerly Atom Shell) using web technologies. Like all the applications featured in our article, Atom is a free and open-source that its developers’ bill as “A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.” The latest version of Bluefish is version 2.2.10, available from their website. # sudo apt install bluefish To install Bluefish on Debian/Ubuntu: # sudo apt install bluefish The installation of Bluefish is simple, especially on a Debian/Ubuntu-base distro. Bluefish is a multilingual application, available in 17 languages with more translations actively being worked on. Bluefish 2.2.10īluefish offers developers a host of advanced features such as tag auto-completion, external program integration, auto-indentation, auto-recovery, full-screen editing, a powerful search and replace function and a multitude of others. Along with outstanding support for tools used mostly in web development like HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, and CSS, Bluefish also supports other popular programming languages, including C/C++, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Shell, and many others.

Although most often associated with web development, Bluefish is also an excellent general programming editor.

From the Netherlands, we have the Bluefish advanced text editor.
