Geany vs PaizaCloud Cloud IDE

Geany is a free, lightweight integrated development environment for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides syntax highlighting, code completion, call tips, and code folding for languages and file types including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, and Pascal. An embedded terminal emulator is included, and plugins can extend the editor. Geany supports macro recording and column editing, but not multi-cursor editing. The project distributes it under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Linux, BSD, and similar systems are directed toward distribution packages, including packages named for Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Prebuilt Windows and macOS binaries are available from geany.org, along with links to additional third-party packages and a portable Windows version. Building from source requires GTK3 libraries and headers, dependency libraries, and C and C++ compilers. Geany has no free trial because the listed plan is free.

PaizaCloud Cloud IDE is a browser-based development environment with an editor, web server, database server and terminal in a cloud workspace. The maker says a new Linux development server starts in about three seconds. The browser interface includes file management, a file editor, terminal and an in-browser browser; users can install or create additional apps. Listed environments include LAMP, PHP, Ruby on Rails, JSP, Django, Node.js, Laravel, Go, Express, MEAN stack, Jupyter Notebook and Git. Users can share a server workspace and connect over SSH. The cloud environment runs Linux (Ubuntu 18.04), and recommended client systems include Windows 8.1 or later, Mac OS X 10.13 or later, iOS 12 or later and Android 8 or later. The free plan includes one server, up to 24 hours of server lifetime and up to four continuous running hours while the browser is open. Publishing public web applications is unavailable on FREE and LITE, but available on BASIC, which costs $19.80 a month. LITE costs $9.80 a month.