CodeLite is an integrated development environment with a graphical interface for managing workspaces, projects and code that has been released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Compilation of programs is done by using the GNU compiler, which compiles the code, e.g. C and C++, into a form that can be understood by the computer.

The programs compiled by him are slightly larger in size than those compiled by Microsoft Visual C++ environment, which is caused by attaching the necessary libraries directly to the executable file, which results in the operation of the program without the need to install additional libraries. CodeLite has a code editor with syntax highlighting and coloring for most common programming languages. It also supports plugins, which further extend the functionality of the tool.

The environment is very intuitive, thanks to which people starting their adventure with programming can easily cope with it.