writing in december 2011, reviewer rares aioanei praised jedit's versatility, stating "jedit's design allows you to use it as a simple editor, but also use it as an ide and expand its functionality via plugins so that it becomes exactly what you want it to be for the task or language at hand." but also adding that "jedit is not, however, an ide with everything but the christmas tree, like eclipse or microsoft visual studio. rather, it's a compact application for editing code, providing practical tools along with basic ide features."