The following table lists notable online software source code playgrounds. A playground allows learning about, experimenting with and sharing source code. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Playground | Access | C | C++ | Objective-C | Java | Other |
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code [a] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bash, C, CoffeeScript, C++, Crystal, C#, D, Dart, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Hack, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Nim, Node.js, OCaml, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, R, Rust, Scala, Swift, TypeScript |
OneCompiler [b] | Free | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Ada, Assembly, Bash, C, C++, C#, Clojure, Cobol, CoffeeScript, CommonLisp, CSS, D, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Fortran, Go, Groovy, Haskell, HTML, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lua, OCaml, Octave, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Prolog, Python, R, Racket, Ruby, Rust, Scala, SQL (through MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server), Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual Basic, VB.NET |
intervue.io [c] | Free & Paid | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Bash, C, C++, Elixir, Erlang, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, R, Rust, Swift, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Plain Text, HTML/CSS/JavaScript |
JDoodle [d] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | AWK, Ada, Algol 68, Apl, Assembler, Bash, BC, Befunge, Blockly, Brainf**k, C#, C99, Cow, CLISP, Cobol, Clojure, CoffeeScript, D, Dart, Deno, Erlang , Elixir , F# , Falcon, Fantom, Factor, Forth, Fortran, Free Basic, GO, Groovy, Hack,Haskell, Haxe, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Icon, Intercal, J Language, Java , JBang, Jelly. Julia, Kotlin, LOLCODE, Lua, MATLAB/Octave, Moonscript, MySQL, Nemerle, Nim, NodeJS, Ocaml, OZ Mozart, Pascal, Picolisp, Pike, Prolog, PHP, Perl, Python, R Language, Racket, Raku, Rhino JS, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, SmallTalk, SpiderMonkey, SQL, Swift, TCL, TypeScript, Unlambda, VB. Net, VERILOG, Whitespace, YaBasic |
codepad [e] | Free | Yes | Yes | No | No | D, Haskell, Lua, OCaml, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl |
codiva.io [f] | Free | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
paiza.IO [g] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Python, Ruby, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Objective-C, Kotlin, Scala, Swift, Go, Haskell, Bash, Swift, Rust, Scala, SQL |
Ideone [h] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ada 95, Common Lisp, Prolog, Assembler 32 bit, Common Lisp, JavaScript, D, Assembler 64 bit, Kotlin, R, AWK, Lua, Racket, Dart, Nemerle, Rust, BC, Elixir, Nice, Scala, BrainFuck, Erlang, Nim, Scheme, F#, Node.js, Fantom, Forth, OCaml, Smalltalk, C99, Fortran, Octave, TCL, Clips, Go, Perl, Python, Text, Clojure, Gosu, Pico Lisp, Unlambda, Cobol, Groovy, Pike, VB.NET, Icon, Prolog, Whitespace, CoffeeScript, Intercal, PHP, Ruby, SQLite, Pascal, Swift |
onlinegdb [i] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Assembly, Bash, C#, CSS, Fortran, Go, Haskell, HTML, JavaScript, JavaScript (Rhino), Pascal, Perl, PHP, Prolog, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, SQLite, Swift, Visual Basic |
Replit [j] | Free | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Clojure, Haskell, Kotlin, QBasic, Forth, LOLCODE, BrainFuck, Emoticon, Bloop, Unlambda, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Scheme, APL, Lua, Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, Enzyme, Go, Java, C++, C, C#, F#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Rust, Swift, Django, Express, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, R, Next.js, GatsbyJS, React, React TypeScript, React Reason, Bash, Quil, TypeScript |
Rextester [k] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ada, Assembly, Bash, C#, JavaScript (client side), Common Lisp, D, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Fortran, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lua, MySQL, Node.js, OCaml, Octave, Oracle SQL, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Prolog, Python, Python 3, R, Ruby, Scala, Scheme, SQL Server, Swift, Tcl, Visual Basic. |
myCompiler [l] | Free | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Assembly, Bash, C#, Clojure, D, Erlang, Fortran, Go, Lua, Node.js, PHP, Perl, Python, R, Ruby, SQL. |
Compiler Explorer [m] | Free | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Ada, Assembly, C, C#, C++, Clean, Crystal, D, Dart, Erlang, F#, Fortran, Go, Haskell, HLSL, Java, Koltin, MLIR, Nim, Ocaml, Pascal, Pony, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Solidity, TypeScript, Visual Basic and Zig (through several compilers and compilers' versions plus few ergonomic IDE’s features). |
.NET Fiddle [n] | Free | No | No | No | No | C# (Framework / Core), F# (Framework / Core), VB.NET (Framework) |
Try It Online [o] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ABC, ABC-assembler, Ada, Agda, ALGOL 68, Alice ML, APL, Appleseed, ASPeRiX, Assembly, ATS2, Attache, AWK, B, Bash, bc, BeanShell, Boo, bosh, Bracmat, Brat, C, C#, C++, Caboose, CakeML, calc, Ceylon, Chapel, Charm, Checked C, Cheddar, Chez Scheme, CHICKEN Scheme, CIL, cixl, Clean, CLIPS, Clojure, COBOL, Cobra, Coconut, CoffeeScript, Common Lisp, CPY, Cryptol, Crystal, Curry, Cyclone, D, Dafny, Dart, Dash, dc, dg, DScript, Dyvil, C, C++, ed, Egel, ELF, Elixir, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, es, Euphoria, F#, Factor, Fantom, Farnsworth, Felix, fish, FOCAL-69, Forth, Fortran, Funky, Gambit Scheme, GAP, Gema, gnuplot, Go, Granule, Groovy, Guile, Gwion, HadesLang, Haskell, Haxe, Hobbes, Huginn, Hy, Icon, Idris, ink, Io, J, Java, JavaScript, Joy, jq, Julia, Jx, K, Kobeři-C, Koka, Kotlin, ksh, Lean, Lily, Literate Haskell, LLVM IR, Lua, M4, Make, Mamba, Mathics, Maxima, Moonscript, Mouse, MUMPS, MY-BASIC, Nial, Nim, Oberon-07, Object Pascal, Objective-C, OCaml, occam-pi, Octave, Odin, OSH, P#, Pari/GP, Pascal, Perl, Phoenix, PHP, Physica, PicoLisp, Pike, PILOT, Pony, Positron, PostScript, PowerShell, PowerShell Core, Prolog, Proton, Pure, PureScript, Python, Q#, R, Racket, RAD, Rapira, Reason, REBOL, Red, Rexx, Ring, rk, Ruby, Rust, Röda, Scala, sed, sfk, Shnap, Sidef, Simula, SISAL, SNOBOL4, SQLite, Squirrel, Stacked, Standard ML, Swift, Tcl, tcsh, TemplAt, TypeScript, uBASIC, Ursala, V, Vala, Visual Basic .NET, VSL, WebAssembly, Wolfram Language, Wren, Yabasic, yash, Z3, Zephyr, Zig, zkl, Zoidberg, Zsh. |
Playground | Access | HTML | CSS | JavaScript | Collaborative | Embeddable | Other |
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CodePen [p] | Free & Paid | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | HAML, Markdown, Slim, Jade, Less, Sass, Stylus, CoffeeScript, LiveScript, TypeScript, Babel (ES6) |
Coder Online IDE [q] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Batch, Clojure, CoffeeScript, CSS, C++, Go, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, TypeScript, Visual Basic, XML |
CSSDesk [r] | Free | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
JS Bin [s] | Free & Paid | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | CSS Less/Myth/Sass, CoffeeScript, jQuery, Processing.js |
intervue.io [t] | Free & Paid | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Supports all JavaScript and CSS libraries |
JSFiddle [u] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | CoffeeScript, jQuery, Processing.js, Sass, TypeScript, Babel (ES6), dozens of included JavsScript libraries |
JSitor [v] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Supports all JavaScript and CSS libraries. |
sequential [w] | Free | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | |
JQ.VER.SION [x] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | jQuery |
Khan Academy [y] | Free | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
Mozilla Thimble [z] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Add & manage files; light & dark themes; create/follow embedded tutorials; responsive design testing mode |
Webpaw [aa] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Less, TypeScript, development assets, import from HTML/GitHub, social login, multiple layouts |
Liveweave [ab] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Plunker [ac] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Many other JavaScript libs including AngularJS |
PhpFiddle [ad] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Provided multiple popular JavaScript libraries |
W3Schools [ae] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | jQuery, tutorials |
WebFiddle [af] | Free | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
JSFeed [ag] | Free & Paid | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | HAML, Markdown, Jade, Less, Sass, Stylus, CoffeeScript, LiveScript, TypeScript, Babel (ES6) |
LiveGap Editor [ah] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Less |
ScratchPad [ai] | Free | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
Runnable [aj] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
jsdo.it [ak] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
snip2code [al] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Playground | Access | PHP | Ruby/Rails | Python/Django | SQL | Other |
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DB Fiddle [am] | Free & Paid | No | No | No | Yes | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite |
dbfiddle [an] | Free | No | No | No | Yes | Db2, Firebird, MariaDB, MySQL, Node.js, Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, SQLite, YugabyteDB |
ExtendsClass [ao] | Free | Yes | No | No | Yes | MySQL, SQLite (SQL.js) |
PhpFiddle [ap] | Free | Yes | No | No | Yes | MySQL, SQLite |
runnable [aj] | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
SQL Fiddle [aq] | Free | No | No | No | Yes | MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite (WebSQL), SQLite (SQL.js) |
W3Schools [ae] | Free | Yes | No | No | Yes | tutorials |
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