Editor & IDE tools
The code editors and IDEs developers actually use, from Visual Studio Code and Cursor to Neovim, Zed and the JetBrains family, ranked by real stacks.
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Most used tools
- Rank 1
Cursor9 users - Rank 2
Visual Studio Code8 users - Rank 3
JetBrains PyCharm5 users - Rank 4
Neovim2 users - Rank 5
Nova2 users - Rank 6
Jupyter2 users - Rank 7
JetBrains GoLand1 user - Rank 8
JetBrains WebStorm1 user - Rank 9
JetBrains RubyMine1 user - Rank 10
JetBrains CLion1 user - Rank 11
Sublime Text1 user - Rank 12
Vim1 user - Rank 13
Emacs1 user - Rank 14
Zed1 user - Rank 15
Xcode1 user - Rank 16
Windsurf1 user - Rank 17
Kate1 user - Rank 18
RStudio1 user - Rank 19
TanStack Devtools1 user 
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA0 users
JetBrains Rider0 users
JetBrains DataGrip0 users
Android Studio0 users
Eclipse0 users
Helix0 users
Lapce0 users
Lite XL0 users
Visual Studio0 users
JetBrains PhpStorm0 users
Notepad++0 users
Atom0 users
NetBeans0 users
TextMate0 users
GNU nano0 users
VSCodium0 users
Brackets0 users
tsx0 users
Open Knowledge0 users
Unity Hub0 users- BBlack0 users
Quill0 users
CKEditor 50 users
Plate0 users- CCodex-X0 users
- ddevframe0 users
Chrome DevTools0 users
Textual0 users
FreeCAD0 users
Plate.js0 users- vvite-plugin-vue-inspector0 users
31 tools have no users here yet, so they are listed without a rank.
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Tools that sit beside this category's top tools, ordered by how many of them list each one, and the pairs worth comparing side by side.
Visual Studio Code is still the default: 76% of respondents to the 2025 Stack Overflow developer survey used it, up from 74% a year earlier. The change of the last twelve months is what sits next to it. Cursor, an AI-first fork of VS Code, reached 18% in its first year in the survey, Zed reached 7%, and Neovim kept climbing, from 12.6% to 14.1%. JetBrains IDEs such as PyCharm held steady at around 15%, which says more about loyalty in language-specific teams than about hype.
The list below is ranked by how many Stackness members keep each editor in their stack, not by downloads or votes. The top ten carry a twelve-week trend line, and the risers and fallers count what members added or retired in the last 30 days. Further down, the history charts bring in outside sources such as the Stack Overflow survey and Hacker News mentions, each linked to where the number comes from. If you are choosing between two editors, the side-by-side comparisons at the bottom, like Cursor vs Visual Studio Code, put their usage and trends on one page.
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Adoption history
Each tool is scaled to its own peak, so the lines compare shape, not size: a higher line is not a bigger number. Sources cover different tools over different periods, so a gap is a stretch nobody measured and a tool this source never covered has no line at all. Data sources
- Cursor - Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 3 questions (2009) to 0 questions (2026)
- Visual Studio Code - Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 1 question (2010) to 20 questions (2026)
- JetBrains PyCharm - Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 1 question (2010) to 3 questions (2026)