Bluefish vs CodeMirror
Bluefish
bluefish.openoffice.nl
CodeMirror
codemirror.netSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | CodeMirror |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Code editors | 8.5 (#12) | 7.6 (#39) |
| Extension support | Yes | Yes |
| Language support | Supports 30+ markup and programming languages. | The site lists parser packages for languages including JavaScript, Python, Rust, SQL, HTML, CSS, and JSON. |
| Platforms | The download page lists Linux packages and installers for Windows 64-bit and Mac OSX; it also provides a Linux Flatpak. | web |
| Support | The volunteer-run project offers community and support mailing lists, directs bug reports to its bug tracker, and lists commercial support by contacting the project. | The site directs questions to its forum and bug reports to its issue tracker; it does not list support response times or a current support price. |
| What it does | Bluefish is a lightweight editor for programmers and web developers to write websites, scripts, and programming code. | CodeMirror is a code editor component for websites, with an API for extending it. |
Plans
In their own words
Bluefish
Bluefish is a free, open-source desktop editor for programmers and web developers. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and supports more than 30 markup and programming languages. The editor is designed for websites, scripts, and programming code, with project support for working across multiple projects while restoring each project’s settings. Bluefish can load and save remote files through FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, and CIFS via gvfs. Editing tools include regular-expression search and replace, snippets, unlimited undo and redo, crash recovery for modified documents, code folding, bracket and tag highlighting, autocompletion, and automatic tag closing for many languages. It can open more than 1,000 documents, with the features page reporting tests above 10,000 simultaneously. External programs and custom scripts can be integrated. The official Flatpak’s strict security blocks some system-tool and browser integrations.
CodeMirror
CodeMirror has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.