5 Best Lightweight Text Editors for Editing Your Code

You may often find it difficult when typing a program in Notepad or any other text editors that can't handle to do highlighting your work or re-arrange your workspace.. so you get a blind on code, and maybe you are getting bored with the current text editors which is very slow and unresponsive.

But today were going to tell you that there's some free text editor that you can use to edit your code for programming, and those text editors were fast and light so you probably won't get annoyed when you have an low end PC.
Some of these text editors are free but there's a few text editor that you should be purchased to get the licensed one. Alright so here the list of the best the Lighweight text editors you should have.

1. Sublime Text

So i put the Sublime Text in the first row because this one was incredible fast text editors and the design of the software which the default appearance is dark "Monokai" would slighty get eyestrain.

Sublime text can be evaluated for free, but for licensed one can be purchased for $70 USD.

2. Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

3. Vim

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X. 

Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Among its features are:

• persistent, multi-level undo tree
• extensive plugin system
• support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats
• powerful search and replace
• integrates with many tools

4. Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity). Begin your journey with VS Code with these introductory videos.

You can also add extension to your visual studio https://code.visualstudio.com/docs

5. Brackets

Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. they blend visual tools into the editor so you get the right amount of help when you want it without getting in the way of your creative process. You'll enjoy writing code in Brackets.