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I always jump straight to the IDE section because that's the most intersting to me https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es https://survey.st

I always jump straight to the IDE section because that's the most intersting to me https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es A few notes: - VS Code at #1 (of course) with 75%, Visual Studio at #2 with 29% - Vim at 24% and Neovim at 14%, which seems pretty whopping to me (I wonder how much overlap is there, the survey is clearly "click all that apply") - Cursor is 17.9%, wild - Nano is 12.5%, lol - Sublime Text is 10.5%, impressive given how much the IDE market has changed - Zed is 7.3% I wonder if that's enough to be Ramen profitable for a small team? (Not familiar with what Zed is charging for these days)

qsort 1y ago
Vim is very likely to be an editor that complements a full IDE if you're just doing something quick. If you asked me I'd also check Vim even though I'm usually on Jetbrains.
- robenkleene 1y ago
  Yeah that makes sense, here I'm just curious if 38% of developers really use Vim (i.e., Vim [24%] + Neovim [14%]), which seems really high to me (even if it's assumed a lot of these are using Vim as a second editor). Or if it's just that a lot of folks are checking both Vim and Neovim.
LVB 1y ago
Zed lets you pay for AI, and I’m a happy customer. Their agent feature works well with Claude models IMO and the full integration and editor experience is excellent.
a_e_k 1y ago
And Emacs was banished to a write-in this year, when it was near the middle of the pack at 4.2% (Emacs) and 0.4% (Spacemacs) last year. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated-development-environment https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated... It's also been fairly stable over the last few years, so it's hard for me to believe that it just suddenly dropped off to 0.2%: | 2021 | 5.30% | | 2022 | 4.51% | | 2023 | 4.69% | | 2024 | 4.2% |

qsort 1y ago

Vim is very likely to be an editor that complements a full IDE if you're just doing something quick. If you asked me I'd also check Vim even though I'm usually on Jetbrains.

robenkleene 1y ago
Yeah that makes sense, here I'm just curious if 38% of developers really use Vim (i.e., Vim [24%] + Neovim [14%]), which seems really high to me (even if it's assumed a lot of these are using Vim as a second editor). Or if it's just that a lot of folks are checking both Vim and Neovim.

LVB 1y ago

Zed lets you pay for AI, and I’m a happy customer. Their agent feature works well with Claude models IMO and the full integration and editor experience is excellent.

a_e_k 1y ago

And Emacs was banished to a write-in this year, when it was near the middle of the pack at 4.2% (Emacs) and 0.4% (Spacemacs) last year. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated-development-environment https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated... It's also been fairly stable over the last few years, so it's hard for me to believe that it just suddenly dropped off to 0.2%: | 2021 | 5.30% | | 2022 | 4.51% | | 2023 | 4.69% | | 2024 | 4.2% |