LiteIDE vs Micro

LiteIDE is a free, open-source IDE for Go development on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Its editor handles Go, Markdown, and Go Present with syntax highlighting, completion, folding, and navigation. Projects can be compiled and tested through standard Go tools, with custom build configurations available. Go workflows include modules, workspaces, GOPATH, and vendor support, plus integrations for gocode, gomodifytags, and guru. Debugging uses GDB and Delve. The IDE also includes plug-ins, an integrated terminal, configurable build commands, and file search, replace, and revert tools. Developers can switch build environments and set GOOS and GOARCH for cross-compilation. The latest listed release is X38.4, dated 2025-05-20, with Go 1.24 support. The installation guide requires the Go development environment; building from source requires Qt4 or Qt5. The repository identifies an LGPL-2.1 license.

Micro is a free terminal-based text editor for Windows, macOS and Linux, intended for people who prefer terminal work or regularly edit files over SSH. It is distributed as a single static binary without dependencies. The editor provides syntax highlighting for over 130 languages and includes splits, tabs, a diff gutter, simple autocompletion, persistent undo, linting notifications, macros, soft wrapping, line numbers and Unicode support. It also offers multiple cursors, mouse selection and an interactive shell inside the editor. Options and keybindings can be changed with JSON, with further configuration through Lua. Its Lua plugin system includes a manager for installing, removing and updating plugins. Micro supports language servers and remote development, and themes can use 16, 256 or truecolor; seven colorschemes are included by default. On Linux desktops, external clipboard access requires xclip or xsel for X11, or wl-clipboard for Wayland. Vim emulation and Vi keybindings are not provided.