Dev IDEs
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IYKYK: Helix users want to keep using it as their IDE more than any other IDE this year
Question
Which development environments and code editors did you use regularly over the past year? Which do you want to use over the next year? Please check all that apply.
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Data
| Desired | Admired | |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Studio Code | 40.6% | 55.7% |
| Vim | 16.4% | 55.7% |
| Notepad++ | 15.1% | 52.5% |
| IntelliJ IDEA | 14.5% | 53.3% |
| Visual Studio | 14.1% | 47.8% |
| Neovim | 12.9% | 69.9% |
| Zed | 9.7% | 57.3% |
| PyCharm | 8.2% | 49.7% |
| Cursor | 7.9% | 33.0% |
| Android Studio | 7.8% | 39.4% |
| Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab | 6.6% | 44.7% |
| Nano | 6.2% | 46.8% |
| VSCodium | 5.6% | 51.4% |
| Xcode | 5.5% | 38.7% |
| Sublime Text | 5.4% | 49.6% |
| Rider | 5.2% | 56.9% |
| WebStorm | 4.7% | 55.2% |
| Emacs | 4.6% | 61.0% |
| CLion | 3.8% | 51.1% |
| GitHub Codespaces | 3.7% | 34.2% |
| PhpStorm | 3.7% | 51.5% |
| RustRover | 3.6% | 56.7% |
| Eclipse | 3.0% | 32.6% |
| GoLand | 3.0% | 52.7% |
| Kiro | 1.7% | 31.2% |
| Windsurf | 1.7% | 22.7% |
| Helix | 1.4% | 88.5% |
| NetBeans | 1.3% | 30.4% |
| RubyMine | 1.3% | 51.1% |
| Replit | 1.2% | 24.4% |
| Trae | 0.7% | 35.6% |
| Antigravity | 0.3% | 62.1% |
| R Studio | 0.3% | 75.0% |
| Kate | 0.3% | 81.8% |
| BBEdit | 0.2% | 82.8% |
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