Best Windows Freeware – Programming

Programming

1. Frhed – Hex editor.
2. ActiveGrid Studio – ActiveGrid Studio enables developers to rapidly build enterprise-level Web 2.0 applications with a minimum of training, time, and effort. Supports Java, PHP, Python. Database supports is the best I’ve seen in an open IDE. Has built in Python and Java environments plus a built in running Apache web server. Highly recommended.
3. Aptana – Development environment geared towards web development, Ajax style! Autocomplete and assistance for HTML, CSS, Java Script.
4. Balthisar Cascade 2.0 – CSS level 2 editor available for the Windows platform.
5. BlitzMax IDE – Basic programming IDE for use with the Blitz game development environment.
6. Boa Constructor – A visual GUI designer and IDE for Python
7. Code:Blocks – The IDE with all the features you need, having a consistent look, feel and operation across platforms.
8. Cooktop – XML editor.
9. Cream – A modern configuration of the powerful and famous Vim, with full GUI.
10. Eclipse – Eclipse java IDE for Windows. It can be extended into many other platforms.
11. Entice – Entice Designer is a Form Designer for DFL and a rich code editor, and is on the path to becoming an IDE. D programming language
12. Envelop VBasic – Visual Basic clone; compiles to exe, gui designer!
13. FarPy – Awesome wxPython and .Net GUI designer.
14. Flashdevelop – Actionscript 2 IDE with seamless swfmill and MTASC integration. FlashDevelop is the first alternative opensource IDE to feature AS3 & MXML completion, including Flex2 compiler integration (the best compiler integration after Adobe FB) and AS3 syntax checking. Highly recommended. Requires .Net.
15. GNUStep objective C – Objective C lib, compilers, etc.
16. Groovy – Groovy is an agile, dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Groovy includes features found in Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk, but uses syntax similar to the Java programming language.
17. Haste – Haskell TurboEdit – is an IDE for the functional programming language Haskell, written in Haskell.
18. IronPythonIDE – IronPython IDE is a GUI application written in C#. It is dedicated to the IronPython language which is a .NET implementation of the Python language. It is aimed at providing a nice, easy, full featured development environment for IronPython. Read up on or download IronPython.
19. IronPythonStudio – IronPython Studio is a free full IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the Python programming language. It is based on the existing IronPython example that is included in the VS SDK. IronPython Studio is based on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell runtime (royalty free) and can be installed without requiring any version of Visual Studio.
20. Komodo Edit – Free, feature-rich editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
21. Lazarus – Delphi/Kylix like programming environment using Pascal, compiles to exe and includes gui designer.!
22. NVU – HTML wysiwyg editor, supports CSS, Javascript, etc. Highly recommended.
23. Netbeans – IDE with the following features and language support Ajax | C/C++ | Databases | Debugger | Desktop | Editor | GUI Builder | Java EE | Java ME | Java SE | Javascript | Mobile | Profiler | Refactor | REST | Rich Client Platform | Ruby | SOA | SOAP | UML | Web | WSDL | XML.
24. OpenLaszlo – Flash creation, plus much more. Kind of like Macromedia Flex. For everything you need for this visit my Laszlo article.
25. PyScripter – A very powerful, full featured, professional Python IDE written in Delphi. Highly recommended.
26. Python Enthought edition – Scientific power packed Python install! This has wxWindows installed by default.
27. Python for Photoshop – Python Actions Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop
28. Python programming language! – So much power and easy to pick up! Has an included programming editor/IDE called PythonWin.exe
29. RadRails – Ruby On Rails IDE.
30. Rec – Decompiler, breaks exe files into C/C++ code.
31. SPE – If your a Python programmer working on Mac or Windows and your looking for a kick ass IDE Spe is for you! Highly recommended.
32. Scite – A free source code editor for Win32 and X.
33. Selenium – Web application test tool. Tests run directly in a browser, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Firefox. Supported platforms Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. Languages include C#, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.
34. Sepy – Flash Actionscript IDE. This is really nice! Has class list, auto complete, and compiler. Highly recommended.
35. SharpDevelop – IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform..
36. SimpleCSS – CSS Editor.
37. Spket – IDE for JavaScript, XUL/XBL and Yahoo! Widget development. It provides features like code completion, syntax highlighting and content outline that helps developers productively create efficient JavaScript code. Supports Laszlo and Silverlight. Requires Java.
38. TSWebeditor – HTML/PHP IDE. Has FTP, projects, and css support built in. Very nice! Highly recommended.
39. Vex – Vex is an editor for XML documents. The “visual” part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex is best suited for “document-style” XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than “data-style” XML documents.
40. WXWindows – BOA uses wxWindows backend
41. Webniac – HTML editor, CSS, ETC.
42. Xerlin – XML editor.
43. Xinha – HTML editor also has a Firefox extension.
44. ConText – Programmers text editor, supports most languages, shell scripts, plugin support.
45. Crimson editor – Programmers text editor. Features tabbed interface, html, php, c, python syntax highlighting, code output window, and built in FTP! Highly recommended.
46. Jedit – Jedit is a mature and well-designed programmer’s text editor with a big focus on Java. Has nice Jython support!
47. Notepad++ – Notepad replacement with tabs, plugins, no file size limit. Highlights many langauges included Python, Java, Html, etc. Highly Recommended.
48. AutoIt – task automation programming
49. SciTE4AutoIt3 – text editor for AutoIt
50. AutoHotkey – task automation
51. PHP Designer – PHP editor
52. PSPad – text editor
53. FoxEditor – text editor
54. Elfima Notepad – text editor
55. Notepad2 – text editor
56. Nvu – HTML editor
57. Alleycode – HTML editor
58. BlockNote – web page editor
59. Weaverslave – web page editor
60. TortoiseSVN – the best windows SVN client at your finger tips.
61. Visual Web Developer Express – A free edition of Visual Studio with the features of a full phase .Net web development IDE. A must have.

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1. rustik says:

   May 5, 2010 at 11:44 am

   I suggest free HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript editor – Codelobster PHP Edition

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