Dev tools · 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. Preprocessor for XML and JSON. People-Friendly Syntax,code Reuse+editor launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Squire▲123

   The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.

   2014 · neilj.github.io · its alternatives →

2. 2PI
   Preprocessor I've been working 4 years now▲78

   Hey there, I'm here today to share with you a software I've been working on for 4 years now. I'm not full time dedicated to it, as I need to make a living. My inspiration to develop it came when I started using Sass for real in production. I really appreciated the hierarchy of nesting rules instead of the way CSS vanilla used to do. The obvious nesting rules was easy to read and understand just by looking at. That was something I personally admirated very much. I wondered why there was no HTML preprocessors as revolutionary as there is for CSS and JavaScript. All popular preprocessors for…

   2024 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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   Macaw▲90

   A simple code editor for Swift

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4JA
   jq, a lightweight commandline JSON processor▲5

   2012 · stedolan.github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Prepros▲61

   GUI compiler for preprocessing languages

   2014 · prepros.io · its alternatives →

6. 6AS
   A Super Simple JSON CMS▲8

   2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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   Jsong: faster than light streaming JSON parser and writer in C▲9

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A lightweight JSON Parser without memory allocation in ~250 LOC▲9

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Linux-based OS with HTML, CSS, JS, and JSON environment▲8

   May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10AA
    Awl, a toy Lisp language written in C and transpiled to JavaScript▲8

    2014 · skepsi.me · its alternatives →

11. 11
    A text editor with a programming language▲6

    2023 · lambdaway.free.fr · its alternatives →

12. 12JE
    JSON Editor for macOS▲5

    2022 · theapiscout.com · its alternatives →

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    YDML – YAML DOM Markup Language▲5

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    JsonTree, a tool for turning JSON data into a collapsible html tree▲9

    A lightweight vanilla Javascript micro-library for making collapsible trees with JSON - MaxLeiter/jsonTree

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Prepack▲7

    A tool for making JavaScript code run faster

    2017 · prepack.io · its alternatives →

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    Prettier 1.0▲11

    An opinionated JavaScript formatter

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17TJ
    The JSON processor jq running in the browser with emscripten▲8

    2017 · fiatjaf.alhur.es · its alternatives →

18. 18TE
    The Earl Grey language – pattern matching, macros, compiles to JS▲5

    2014 · breuleux.github.io · its alternatives →

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    JSONPlus: a json parser with self reference and templating▲7

    JSON parser that supports self reference and comments - serkanyersen/jsonplus

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20PA
    Philip2 – an Elm-to-OCaml compiler▲8

    2019 · medium.com · its alternatives →

21. 21AS
    A smart Django/Node code generator written in Haskell▲7

    2021 · app.imagine.ai · its alternatives →

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    Stencil▲9

    A Compiler for Web Components

    2017 · stenciljs.com · its alternatives →

23. 23CP
    CodeStruct – Python programming environment for novices after Scratch▲9

    2022 · code-struct.vercel.app · its alternatives →

24. 24AC
    A compiler and (slightly) higher language for Human Resource Machine▲5

    2017 · turysaz.wordpress.com · its alternatives →

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