GNU Emacs
The extensible, self-documenting editor you program in Lisp, with Org mode and Magit. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- IDE
- Developer
- GNU Project
- Created by
- Richard Stallman
- First release
- 1985
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
- Kind
- Code editor
- Written in
- C, Emacs Lisp
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Extension ecosystem
- 4 of 5
- AI assistance
- Through extensions
- Language servers (LSP)
- Yes
- Remote development
- Yes
- Built-in debugger
- Yes
- Best for
- Almost any language
- Resource use
- Light