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Developers describe gedit as "Text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows". gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor. On the other hand, Monaco Editor is detailed as "A browser based code editor". The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

gedit and Monaco Editor can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

"Fast" is the top reason why over 8 developers like gedit, while over 3 developers mention "Out of the Box Intellisense" as the leading cause for choosing Monaco Editor.

Monaco Editor is an open source tool with 15.9K GitHub stars and 1.39K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Monaco Editor's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of gedit

Pros of Monaco Editor

10
Fast
9
Lightweight
9
GNOME Integration
5
Syntax Highlighting
3
Immediately starts
3
Tabbed UI
2
Free
2
I love gnu-linux
1
External tools and snippets
1
Supports every programming language
1
Spell Check
1
If you took cs50, you know gedit
1
Old gedit based on gtk2

6
Out of the Box Intellisense
4
More features than Ace
3
Power vscode, with all it's features
2
Microsoft Product
1
Accessibility
1
Good support for none-monospace fonts

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Cons of gedit

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GTK3

6
Microsoft

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What is gedit?

gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

What is Monaco Editor?

The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

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What are some alternatives to gedit and Monaco Editor?

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

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