Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Nightcoders.net, a cloud IDE for ClojureScript launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1NT
   Nightcode, the Clojure IDE, just hit 0.1.0▲68

   2013 · nightcode.info · its alternatives →

2. 2LA
   Lightmod, an all-in-one tool for full stack Clojure▲7

   2017 · sekao.net · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Nightlight, an editor that runs inside Clojure projects▲195

   An embedded editor for Clojure. Contribute to oakes/Nightlight development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Reika▲72

   A coding agent CLI designed around small local models first

   15d ago · reikacode.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Codeanywhere▲92

   The only multi-platform cloud editor.

   2014 · codeanywhere.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Re/code Decode - Y Combinator's Sam Altman▲92

   and the internet of things and Google

   2015 · serve.castfire.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Dreamscale Labs▲80

   Run the best robot AI models over the cloud

   8d ago · dreamscalelabs.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Starlie▲104

   A fast, native Jira client for Mac

   Aug 2026 · starlie.app · its alternatives →

9. 9DE
   Dawn – easily annotate code▲8

   2016 · dawn.io · its alternatives →

10. 10CO
    Coast on Clojure: A full stack framework with a catchy name▲8

    2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Styx▲65

    An agentic development environment (ADE) for Mac

    26d ago · heystyx.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Proto-Mindfree▲60

    A floating AI workspace for your Mac

    Sep 2026 · virencore.com · its alternatives →

13. 13AN
    A Node.js CLI tool to generate ai.txt, llms.txt, robots.txt, humans.txt▲7

    2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Insight▲11

    IDE-like code search and navigation, on the cloud

    2017 · elastic.co · its alternatives →

15. 15AR
    An REPL oriented testing framework for Clojure(script)▲7

    2021 · fctorial.github.io · its alternatives →

16. 16FA
    Ferret – A Hard Real-Time Clojure for Lisp Machines▲7

    2016 · nakkaya.com · its alternatives →

17. 17AT
    A tool for making live-moddable games in Clojure▲6

    2014 · nightmod.net · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Nightmod – Make live-moddable games in Clojure▲15

    A tool for making live-moddable games in Clojure. Contribute to oakes/Nightmod development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Coderviews▲7

    A real-time, collaborative compiler.

    2017 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    I made an open-source Replit▲9

    I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21RA
    Ranvier, a Node.js based telnet MUD codebase▲5

    2017 · ranviermud.com · its alternatives →

22. 22SA
    Starlette – An asyncio Web framework for Python▲8

    2018 · starlette.io · its alternatives →

23. 23TC
    The CLI Book – Writing Successful Command Line Clients with Node.js▲7

    2016 · theclibook.com · its alternatives →

24. 24ML
    My Leeds Hack Day project, a language detection API▲9

    2010 · polyglossy.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →