ManialinkEdit

Nadeo ManiaLinkEdit (shortened to MLE or NMLE) is a proprietary web development/design IDE developed by Nadeo. Its first concept was created in 2009, shortly after Nadeo shifted their interests towards enterprise software after being acquired by Ubisoft.

Nadeo ManiaLinkEdit is currently available for Windows and macOS operating systems, with the GNU/Linux version being in active development since 2022.

Development
After the Ubisoft acquisition, it was announced that the Nadeo developers will soon be creating software solutions to potentially "exterminate" the market. One of the first programs created by the team at Nadeo was ManiaLinkEdit in 2009.

The idea for MLE belongs to Hylis' wife - Alinoa, a highly successful Nadeo employee. Her main goal while conceptualising the app was to create a strong competitor for the flagship Adobe product of the same purpose - Dreamweaver.

Release
ManiaLinkEdit 1.0 came out in April 2010 and immediately caught the attention of the French press. It was praised for its innovative UI (including Nadeo's very own ManiaLinkStyles) and wondrous UX that was practically unmatched by any other software of the same type at the time. All that led to many enterprise and freelance developers switching to it as their primary solution for web-development.

MLE kept on receiving quality updates that added language support and fixed various bugs, and as of version 1.13.1 it already had the 78% market share in its software segment. Adobe Dreamweaver, its only competitor and the second place in the ranking, only had 10% of the market.

Future
As of 2024, Nadeo ManiaLinkEdit "has nearly reached perfection". Most recent updates add additional ManiaLinkStyles, new web standard support, or language support. It is currently sitting at a whopping 95.34% market share in the web development IDE segment with no other software coming anywhere near those numbers.

Due to the GNU/Linux market growth starting in 2020s, a GNU/Linux version of MLE was revealed. It is still in development as of today, and is planned to be released in Q3 2024.