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+An [integrated development environment (IDE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.
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 - [Appsmith](https://www.appsmith.com/) - Cloud or self-hosted open-source platform to build admin panels, CRUD apps and workflows. Build everything you need, 10x faster. ([Source Code](https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith)) `Apache-2.0` `Java/Docker`
 - [Atheos](https://www.atheos.io) - Web-based IDE framework with a small footprint and minimal requirements, continued from Codiad. ([Source Code](https://github.com/Atheos/Atheos)) `MIT` `PHP`
 - [Babelfish](https://github.com/bblfsh/bblfshd) - Self-hosted server for source code parsing. It can parse any file, in any supported language, extract an Abstract Syntax Tree from it, and convert it to a Universal Abstract Syntax Tree which can enable further analysis and transformation. `GPL-3.0` `Go`