Vim VS Geany

Compare Vim vs Geany and see what are their differences.

Vim

The official Vim repository (by vim)

Geany

A fast and lightweight IDE (by geany)
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Vim Geany
423 91
34,653 2,965
1.5% 1.5%
9.9 9.2
4 days ago 1 day ago
Vim Script C
Vim License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of Vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.

Geany

Posts with mentions or reviews of Geany. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Vim and Geany you can also consider the following projects:

thonny - Python IDE for beginners

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

notepadqq - A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux

notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository

swiper - Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!

calcurse - A text-based calendar and scheduling application