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Thanks. In more detail:

    Visual Studio Code 73.6%
    Visual Studio 29.3%
    IntelliJ IDEA 26.8%
    Notepad++ 23.9%
    Vim 21.6%
    Android Studio 16.1%
    PyCharm 15.1%
    Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab 12.8%
    Neovim 12.5%
    ...
    Emacs 4.2%
    ...
    Spacemacs 0.4%
So Vim + Neovim = 34.1%, essentially second to Visual Studio, the overwhelming leader.



StackOverflow isn't representative. It was always skewed towards .NET world (and thus VS). I assume this is the case because the founders were prominent .NET personalities.


There's no representative community though


What this doesn't show is people using vscode/vs with neovim driver or vim key bindings. The vim "backend" percentage is going to be significant.


I don't think you can add them, respondents could select multiple editors. I am guessing 34% is the upper limit if no Neovim users use Vim and vice versa, which is hard to believe.


This feels like it's skewed by the question: "Which development environments did you use". I know that vim is an IDE, but I still think of it as a text editor. I would probably answer "Zed" to that question (not even on the list!) and "vim" to a "Which text editor" question, although I use a third, graphical editor (CotEditor) for a lot of stuff too. I never use a full-blown 'ide' like visual studio.


I wonder why is Spacemacs listed as a separate entry?


You could probably lump PyCharm and IntelliJ together; different language modes of effectively the same editor.


I'm pleasantly surprised Notepad++ is so high up.




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