Scripting software & tools

The editors, IDEs, runtimes, and utilities that pair well with the scripts on this site — curated, not hosted. Each link goes to the official source.

🧩 IDEs

🧩 IDEs Free

Android Studio

Google's official IDE for Android development, built on IntelliJ.

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🧩 IDEs Free

Apache NetBeans

Free, open-source IDE with strong out-of-the-box Java support.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

CLion

JetBrains IDE for C and C++ development.

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🧩 IDEs Free

Code::Blocks

Free, open-source, extensible C/C++ IDE.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

DataGrip

JetBrains IDE for working with SQL and databases.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

DataSpell

JetBrains IDE for data science, combining Jupyter notebooks with IDE tooling.

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🧩 IDEs Free

Dev-C++ (Orwell)

Lightweight, beginner-friendly C/C++ IDE for Windows.

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🧩 IDEs Free

Eclipse

Long-standing, extensible IDE originally for Java, with plugins for many other languages.

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🧩 IDEs Free

eric IDE

Full-featured Python IDE with integrated version control and unit testing.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

GoLand

JetBrains IDE dedicated to Go development.

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🧩 IDEs Free

IntelliJ IDEA

JetBrains' flagship Java/Kotlin IDE, with a free Community edition.

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🧩 IDEs Free

JetBrains Fleet

JetBrains' lightweight, distributed-mode next-generation code editor/IDE.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

JetBrains Rider

Cross-platform .NET IDE from JetBrains, a popular alternative to Visual Studio.

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🧩 IDEs Free

LINQPad

Scratchpad IDE for interactively running C#/F#/VB snippets and LINQ queries.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

PhpStorm

JetBrains IDE dedicated to PHP development.

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🧩 IDEs Free

PowerShell ISE

Windows' built-in PowerShell script editor with a debugger and IntelliSense — still bundled with Windows.

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🧩 IDEs Free

PyCharm

Full-featured Python IDE from JetBrains with a free Community edition.

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🧩 IDEs Free

PyScripter

Free, open-source Python IDE built specifically for Windows.

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🧩 IDEs Free

Qt Creator

Cross-platform IDE for C++/QML development with the Qt framework.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

RubyMine

JetBrains IDE dedicated to Ruby and Rails development.

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🧩 IDEs Free

Spyder

Scientific Python IDE with an integrated variable explorer, popular in data science.

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🧩 IDEs Free

Thonny

Python IDE built specifically for beginners, with a built-in step-through debugger.

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🧩 IDEs Free

Visual Studio

Microsoft's full-featured IDE for C#, VB.NET, and general .NET development.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

WebStorm

JetBrains IDE focused on JavaScript/TypeScript development.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

Wing IDE

Python-focused IDE with strong debugging and remote-development support.

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🧩 IDEs Paid

WinVBA

Modernized replacement IDE for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) development.

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