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Hackers have exploited a weakness in the popular open-source Windows based code editor Notepad++ to deliver highly targeted malicious code to exploited computers. For most Notepad++ users, you don’t have much to worry about but it is vital you update to Notepad++ 8.9.1 or newer, which fixes part of the
JetBrains Fleet was first announced back in 2021 as a built from scratch alternative to their existing IDE product line (including IntelliJ IDEA, Rider, CLion, WebStorm and more). It was clearly a response to the exploding popularity of Visual Studio Code. Built on a completely different code base and with
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Zed is an exciting new code editor with a focus on performance that recently released a Windows version (joining the already existing Linux and MacOS versions). Today we are going to look at the process of fully configuring the Zed editor to be an ideal code editor for Godot developers,
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Zed is an interesting new code editor from the creators of the OG Atom editor (that ultimately inspired Visual Studio Code) with a heavy focus on performance and it shows. Written entirely in Rust and utilizing the GPU it is quick to start up and incredibly responsive once loaded. Originally
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Microsoft have just released Visual Studio 2026 Insider. This is the first release of their flagship programming IDE and is safe to install side by side with existing installs, so should be safe to try out today. Although called an “Insiders” release, you don’t need to do anything special to
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Today we are going to look at not one, but two different solutions to embedding Visual Studio Code inside the Godot game engine. Both projects take massively different approaches but more or less accomplish embedding the popular IDE inside of the Godot game engine. Gonuts/godot_vscode_ide The first solution is provided
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The following is a round-up of popular and still in development tools for game programmers, specifically code editors, terminal based editors, IDEs and modern AI assisted tools. If you are looking for a new editor hopefully you will find it here. We go into slightly more depth with each tool
Top Code Editors & IDEs in 2025 Read More
Microsoft have just made a major announcement that will shake the business model of popular AI based code editors Cursor and Windsurf. Both of these companies are built around forks of Visual Studio Code that build AI tooling “into the bones”. Microsoft have just announced they are open sourcing GitHub
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Code::Blocks is an open source (GPL v3 licensed) cross-platform (Windows, Linux and MacOS) C, C++ and Fortran IDE. You could be forgiven for thinking the project was dead as the last binary release was in 2020! Thankfully this is not the case as a little over a month back Code::Blocks
Code::Blocks C/C++ IDE 25.03 Released Read More
The Visual Studio Code March release is here adding mostly new AI and GitHub integration features to the popular open source code editor. The marquee new feature of Visual Studio Code 1.99 is certainly Agent Mode. Highlights of the March 1.99 Visual Studio Code release are: Key Links Visual Studio
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