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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Brackets

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABrackets is a free and open source text editor developed at Adobe under the MIT license, featuring inline editing, live preview, and a wide range of extensions.N/A

    Microsoft Visual Studio Code

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.

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    BracketsMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
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    BracketsMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BracketsMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
    Chose Brackets
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code is superior to Brackets. Brackets are superior to Eclipse. I chose Brackets before Visual Studio code was available and have not decided to change for my web view development.
    Incentivized
    Chose Brackets
    Brackets is an open-source IDE and free to use. It is specifically used for developing web applications that provide brackets an edge over the other available IDE in industry. There are more features available in Brackets as compared to other IDE. Being, Open-source, It is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Brackets
    Atom is very similar to Brackets as it is a javascript based editor. I haven't used it as much, I tried it briefly when I was having an annoying bug in Brackets. It has a very rich ecosystem of plugins. Some of my learned behaviors and tools from Brackets were missing. I'm …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code
    Sublime Text is strictly a text editor and it is the most robust around in my opinion. It is better than Microsoft Visual Studio Code in this respect, but VS Code has other tools that make using it more streamlined. Brackets has a bit of the weakness of VS Code and Sublime …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code
    [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code beats the competition due to its extensibility. Their robust extensions architecture combined with the plethora of mostly free extensions written by the community can't be beaten. The fact that this tool itself is provided by a world-recognized …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code
    In all honesty, I've not even looked back at any of these alternatives since switching to Microsoft Visual Studio Code a few years ago, there simply isn't the need. For all I know they're all absolutely fantastic, but at the time of switching (and consistently since) Microsoft …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code
    It has everything other editors are offering but you will find so many additions. Sometimes you don't think you need a feature until you start using it and that's the case with VS Code. So many things will pop up and make your life easier. Just because you're used to other …
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    BracketsMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    8.6
    (90 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.5
    (5 ratings)
    9.7
    (23 ratings)