gedit vs. WebStorm

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
gedit
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop environment.N/A
WebStorm
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
WebStorm is an integrated development environment (IDE) by JetBrains. Designed for JavaScript and TypeScript development, WebStorm also aims to make it easy to tackle the most challenging tasks. Whether resolving Git merge conflicts or renaming a symbol across multiple files, it takes just a few clicks.
$0
per year
Pricing
geditWebStorm
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Individual Non-Commercial
$0
per year
Individual
$6.90
per month
Bussiness
$15.90
per month per user
Individual
$69
per year
Business
$159
per year per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
geditWebStorm
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
geditWebStorm
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.3
(31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(8 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
geditWebStorm
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
I find it really helpful to cut and paste some of my code, or test out my ideas, using gedit. The software is quick to install and is flexible for use with a lot of different software languages. This is a pure editor that is, in my opinion, the premier notes app for coders.
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JetBrains
Groups that use a [variety] of development environments (.net, python, web), Jebrain's products and Webstorm, in particular, are a great choice for productivity. If your developers are accustom to another IDE it might be better for all to sync on the same one. I wouldn't take the cost aspect as a consideration. A productive developer is far more important.
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Pros
Open Source
  • Lightweight software
  • Color-coded formatting
  • Many language options for formatting
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JetBrains
  • Includes a built in spell checker to eliminate time wasted searching for small mistakes.
  • Provides a drop down menu of options complete with keyboard shortcuts that allow for streamlined programming.
  • Identifies when variables are named differently, allowing for cohesive work without the scrolling.
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Cons
Open Source
  • Little in the way of type hints or formatting suggestions
  • Purely an editor- no way to test the code
  • No way to pin or quickly search for your favorite languages; the scrolling is somewhat cumbersome
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JetBrains
  • The popup file search sometimes frustrates me. It caps the number of results, and sometimes it isn't clear that it simply stopped looking. I also used to have trouble finding string occurrences that I knew were in my project, but I think they've made improvements in this area recently.
  • Being a AAA IDE, WebStorm can be a memory hog. If I don't kill it every few days, it can get really slow. I would love to see performance improvements.
  • Speaking of performance, WebStorm can take a long time to launch. I'd like to see improvements in launch times.
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Likelihood to Renew
Open Source
No answers on this topic
JetBrains
It's an irreplaceable part of my toolkit and isn't that expensive per year.
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Usability
Open Source
No answers on this topic
JetBrains
Great in debugging, testing, developing and maintaining softwares in a number of languages. Great support for many languages and their syntaxes. Great support of many third party extensions and plugins like GIT and html plugins. The RAM usage of WebStorm however could be really improved, it literally takes almost all of the RAM of my machine with 16GB RAM
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Support Rating
Open Source
No answers on this topic
JetBrains
I gave this rating because I have never needed their customer support, which is the highest level of support I suppose. When a product works just fine out of the box and everything you may need is well documented, it's a paradise for the customer. But I've seen some questions asked on their portal, and I've seen thorough answers given to the questions and the willingness to support the customer with follow-ups and everything else.
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Implementation Rating
Open Source
No answers on this topic
JetBrains
Highly recommend the JetBrains Toolbox, it remembers your recent projects and launches from the task bar.
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Alternatives Considered
Open Source
gedit is very lightweight and intuitive to use- its simplicity is its biggest strength. What you are using here is a pure editor, so it's very much like a more helpful, intelligent version of your basic note-taking application. I find other comparable applications may offer more options, but they are also less intuitive and therefore less efficient for my note-taking needs.
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JetBrains
I think WebStorm is way ahead of open-source editors. Please don't get me wrong, I love open-source. But the other free editors have a lot of configuration which blocks my whole coding experience. Take "Atom" for example. I used it for about 3 months, but in that time I had to update the plugins hundreds of time, and for every little thing (e.g. linter) I had to download a community plugin, and with each plugin atom would get a little slow. Take "Eclipse" for another example, which is very suited for Java, but not so suited for JavaScript. Sublime was good, but WebStorm comes with many exciting features that I did not find in sublime/notepad.
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • Easy to manually move and save ideas or chunks of code for future commits
  • Free to install
  • Widely applicable for different languages
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JetBrains
  • Saves lot of time when we are finding the text or files.
  • Easy to work with for support projects.
  • Nice code completion feature.
  • It's all in one solution for both front end, back end and database solution to work with.
  • Initial learning curve is required to use the workbench.
  • Documentation can be improved better probably adding videos, would be helpful for visual person.
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ScreenShots

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