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  "title": "IDE Market Share 2026: Most Popular IDEs and AI Code Editors",
  "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/",
  "updated": "2026-10-23",
  "licence": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data-licence/",
  "attribution": "Source: [publisher] via StatisticsGlobal (https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/)",
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      "sentence": "Visual Studio Code was used regularly by 70.9% of developers in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
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      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
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      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-vscode-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-primary-vscode-2025",
      "sentence": "VS Code was the primary IDE of 26.8% of developers in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey data.",
      "value": 26.8,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 23,749 answered the primary IDE question.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question ide_main (\"Which IDE or editor do you primarily use?\"): weighted VS Code respondents / weighted total, n=23,749.",
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      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-primary-vscode-2025"
    },
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      "id": "ide-so-vscode-yoy",
      "sentence": "VS Code use fell by 5.0 percentage points between the 2025 and 2026 Stack Overflow surveys, from 75.9% to 70.9%, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
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      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
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      "method": "70.9% (2026, n=13,193) minus 75.9% (2025, n=26,143) = -5.0 points. The 2025 question also listed AI tools, so the bases differ.",
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      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-vscode-yoy"
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      "id": "ide-pypl-cursor-2026",
      "sentence": "Cursor had 13.31% of IDE download searches worldwide in October 2026, second after Visual Studio, according to PYPL.",
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      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "PYPL",
      "source_title": "TOP IDE index (worldwide)",
      "source_url": "https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html",
      "source_published": "monthly series to October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/pypl/top-ide-index-worldwide-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "PYPL TOP IDE index: share of Google searches for \"<IDE> download\", from Google Trends, normalised to 100% across 36 tracked IDEs and smoothed over 6 months. Measures interest, not usage.",
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      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-pypl-cursor-2026"
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    {
      "id": "ide-ms-copilot-2026",
      "sentence": "GitHub Copilot had 50 million users in July 2026, according to Microsoft.",
      "value": 50,
      "unit": "million",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Filing",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "source_title": "Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call",
      "source_url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4",
      "source_published": "29 July 2026",
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      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-ms-copilot-2026"
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    {
      "id": "ide-so-notepadpp-2026",
      "sentence": "Notepad++ was used regularly by 27.8% of developers in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 27.8,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-notepadpp-2026"
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    {
      "id": "ide-so-vs-2026",
      "sentence": "Visual Studio was used regularly by 27.6% of developers in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 27.6,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-vs-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-vim-2026",
      "sentence": "Vim was used regularly by 27.2% of developers in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 27.2,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-vim-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-intellij-2026",
      "sentence": "IntelliJ IDEA was used regularly by 24.3% of developers in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 24.3,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-intellij-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-cursor-2026",
      "sentence": "Cursor was used regularly by 14.9% of developers in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 14.9,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-cursor-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-zed-2026",
      "sentence": "Zed was used regularly by 11.4% of developers in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 11.4,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-zed-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-vscode-vs-ratio",
      "sentence": "VS Code had 2.6 times as many regular users as Visual Studio in the 2026 Stack Overflow survey, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
      "value": 2.6,
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      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "9,350 VS Code respondents / 3,643 Visual Studio respondents = 2.57, rounded to 2.6.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-vscode-vs-ratio"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-neovim-admired-2026",
      "sentence": "69.9% of Neovim users wanted to keep using it in 2026, the highest of any editor used by at least 10% of developers, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
      "value": 69.9,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Admired and desired dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/da-dev-envs",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261009052102/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/da-dev-envs",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed. Admired = share of current users who want to use it again next year.",
      "method": "Admired scores for the 13 editors used by 10% or more of respondents: Neovim 69.9% is the highest; next are Zed 57.3%, VS Code 55.7% and Vim 55.7%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-neovim-admired-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-cursor-admired-2026",
      "sentence": "Only 33.0% of Cursor users wanted to keep using it next year in 2026, against 55.7% for VS Code, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 33,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Admired and desired dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/da-dev-envs",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261009052102/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/da-dev-envs",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed. Admired = share of current users who want to use it again next year.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-cursor-admired-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-primary-intellij-2025",
      "sentence": "IntelliJ IDEA was the primary IDE of 24.3% of developers in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey data.",
      "value": 24.3,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 23,749 answered the primary IDE question.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question ide_main, n=23,749. Next: PyCharm 6.8%, Visual Studio 5.5%, Android Studio 4.8%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-primary-intellij-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-primary-cursor-2025",
      "sentence": "Cursor was the primary IDE of 4.1% of developers in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey data.",
      "value": 4.1,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 23,749 answered the primary IDE question.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question ide_main, n=23,749.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-primary-cursor-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-regular-vscode-2025",
      "sentence": "VS Code was used regularly by 58.3% of developers in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey data.",
      "value": 58.3,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 23,855 answered the regular IDE question.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question ides (\"Which IDEs or editors do you regularly use?\"), multiple answers, n=23,855. IntelliJ IDEA 38.7%, PyCharm 21.0%, Cursor 12.0%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-regular-vscode-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-switched-2025",
      "sentence": "25.1% of developers had changed their main IDE in the 12 months before mid-2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey data.",
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      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. The past-IDE question was shown to about half of respondents at random; 8,718 answered both questions.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question main_ide_past compared with ide_main for the same respondent: weighted share where the two differ, n=8,718.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-switched-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-pypl-vs-2026",
      "sentence": "Visual Studio had 19.65% of IDE download searches worldwide in October 2026, the highest of any IDE, according to PYPL.",
      "value": 19.65,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "PYPL",
      "source_title": "TOP IDE index (worldwide)",
      "source_url": "https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html",
      "source_published": "monthly series to October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/pypl/top-ide-index-worldwide-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "PYPL TOP IDE index: share of Google searches for \"<IDE> download\", from Google Trends, normalised to 100% across 36 tracked IDEs and smoothed over 6 months. Measures interest, not usage.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-pypl-vs-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-pypl-vscode-2026",
      "sentence": "VS Code had 10.18% of IDE download searches worldwide in October 2026, according to PYPL.",
      "value": 10.18,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "PYPL",
      "source_title": "TOP IDE index (worldwide)",
      "source_url": "https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html",
      "source_published": "monthly series to October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/pypl/top-ide-index-worldwide-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "PYPL TOP IDE index: share of Google searches for \"<IDE> download\", from Google Trends, normalised to 100% across 36 tracked IDEs and smoothed over 6 months. Measures interest, not usage.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-pypl-vscode-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-vscode-2025",
      "sentence": "Visual Studio Code was used regularly by 75.9% of developers in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2025, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 75.9,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025: Technology (Dev IDEs)",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology",
      "source_published": "2025, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261017200308/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025. 26,143 respondents answered the IDE question, which in 2025 also listed AI tools such as Claude Code. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-vscode-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-vscode-5yr",
      "sentence": "VS Code use in the Stack Overflow survey moved between 70.9% and 75.9% from 2022 to 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
      "value": 5,
      "unit": "points",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "Range of VS Code share across five surveys: 74.48% (2022), 73.71% (2023), 73.6% (2024), 75.9% (2025), 70.9% (2026). Max minus min = 5.0 points.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-vscode-5yr"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-base-drop",
      "sentence": "Respondents to the Stack Overflow IDE question fell 84.8% from 86,544 in 2023 to 13,193 in 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
      "value": -84.8,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed. 2023 base: 86,544.",
      "method": "(13,193 - 86,544) / 86,544 = -84.8%. Bases: 2022 71,010; 2023 86,544; 2024 58,121; 2025 26,143; 2026 13,193.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-base-drop"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-pypl-vs-yoy",
      "sentence": "Visual Studio’s share of IDE download searches fell 8.2 points between October 2025 and October 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from PYPL data.",
      "value": -8.2,
      "unit": "points",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "PYPL",
      "source_title": "TOP IDE index (worldwide)",
      "source_url": "https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html",
      "source_published": "monthly series to October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/pypl/top-ide-index-worldwide-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "PYPL TOP IDE index: share of Google searches for \"<IDE> download\", from Google Trends, normalised to 100% across 36 tracked IDEs and smoothed over 6 months. Measures interest, not usage.",
      "method": "19.65% (October 2026) minus 27.85% (October 2025) = -8.20 points.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-pypl-vs-yoy"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-pypl-vscode-yoy",
      "sentence": "VS Code’s share of IDE download searches fell 4.9 points between October 2025 and October 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from PYPL data.",
      "value": -4.9,
      "unit": "points",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "PYPL",
      "source_title": "TOP IDE index (worldwide)",
      "source_url": "https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html",
      "source_published": "monthly series to October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/pypl/top-ide-index-worldwide-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "PYPL TOP IDE index: share of Google searches for \"<IDE> download\", from Google Trends, normalised to 100% across 36 tracked IDEs and smoothed over 6 months. Measures interest, not usage.",
      "method": "10.18% (October 2026) minus 15.10% (October 2025) = -4.92 points.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-pypl-vscode-yoy"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-claude-code-2026",
      "sentence": "Claude Code was used by 65.5% of developers who used an AI coding agent or assistant in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 65.5,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: AI coding agents",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data/ai-code-agent",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261012071448/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data/ai-code-agent",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026. 12,255 respondents answered which coding agents or assistants they used in the past year. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-claude-code-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-copilot-2026",
      "sentence": "GitHub Copilot was used by 58.7% of developers who used an AI coding agent or assistant in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 58.7,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: AI coding agents",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data/ai-code-agent",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261012071448/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data/ai-code-agent",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026. 12,255 respondents answered which coding agents or assistants they used in the past year. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-copilot-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-cursor-agent-2026",
      "sentence": "Cursor was used by 25.5% of developers who used an AI coding agent or assistant in 2026, according to Stack Overflow.",
      "value": 25.5,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: AI coding agents",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data/ai-code-agent",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261012071448/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data/ai-code-agent",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026. 12,255 respondents answered which coding agents or assistants they used in the past year. Multiple answers allowed.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-cursor-agent-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-cursor-yoy",
      "sentence": "Cursor use fell by 3.0 percentage points between the 2025 and 2026 Stack Overflow surveys, from 17.9% to 14.9%, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
      "value": -3,
      "unit": "points",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed. 2025 base: 26,143.",
      "method": "14.9% (2026) minus 17.9% (2025) = -3.0 points. Stack Overflow Developer Survey Dev IDEs, all respondents.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-cursor-yoy"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-ms-copilot-2025",
      "sentence": "GitHub Copilot had 20 million users in July 2025, according to Microsoft.",
      "value": 20,
      "unit": "million",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Filing",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "source_title": "Microsoft Fiscal Year 2025 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call",
      "source_url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2025/earnings-fy-2025-q4",
      "source_published": "30 July 2025",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261015015515/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/events/FY-2025/earnings-fy-2025-q4",
      "sample": "Company statement in prepared remarks on the earnings call. Microsoft does not define \"users\" for GitHub Copilot.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-ms-copilot-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-ms-copilot-growth",
      "sentence": "GitHub Copilot users grew 150% in a year, from 20 million in July 2025 to 50 million in July 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Microsoft data.",
      "value": 150,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "source_title": "Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call",
      "source_url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4",
      "source_published": "29 July 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261016111859/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4",
      "sample": "Company statement in prepared remarks on the earnings call. Microsoft does not define \"users\" for GitHub Copilot.",
      "method": "(50 million - 20 million) / 20 million = 150%. Microsoft FY2025 Q4 and FY2026 Q4 earnings calls.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-ms-copilot-growth"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-ms-agent-prs",
      "sentence": "One in three pull requests on GitHub involved an agent in July 2026, according to Microsoft.",
      "value": 33,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Filing",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "source_title": "Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call",
      "source_url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4",
      "source_published": "29 July 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261016111859/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q4",
      "sample": "Company statement in prepared remarks on the earnings call. Microsoft does not define \"users\" for GitHub Copilot.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-ms-agent-prs"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-vsm-copilot-2026",
      "sentence": "The GitHub Copilot extension had 74.8 million installs on the Visual Studio Marketplace in October 2026, according to Visual Studio Marketplace.",
      "value": 74.8,
      "unit": "million",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Official",
      "publisher": "Visual Studio Marketplace",
      "source_title": "Visual Studio Marketplace extension statistics (extensionquery API)",
      "source_url": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot",
      "source_published": "live, pulled 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/vs-marketplace/ai-extensions-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "Cumulative install count reported by the Visual Studio Marketplace on 23 October 2026. Counts installs, including reinstalls and multiple machines, not active users. Excludes Cursor and other VS Code forks, which use other registries.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-vsm-copilot-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-vsm-claude-code-2026",
      "sentence": "The Claude Code for VS Code extension had 28.5 million installs in October 2026, 16 months after release, according to Visual Studio Marketplace.",
      "value": 28.5,
      "unit": "million",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Official",
      "publisher": "Visual Studio Marketplace",
      "source_title": "Visual Studio Marketplace extension statistics (extensionquery API)",
      "source_url": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropic.claude-code",
      "source_published": "live, pulled 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/vs-marketplace/ai-extensions-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "Cumulative install count reported by the Visual Studio Marketplace on 23 October 2026. Counts installs, including reinstalls and multiple machines, not active users. Excludes Cursor and other VS Code forks, which use other registries.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-vsm-claude-code-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-vsm-codex-2026",
      "sentence": "OpenAI’s Codex extension had 15.8 million installs in October 2026, according to Visual Studio Marketplace.",
      "value": 15.8,
      "unit": "million",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Official",
      "publisher": "Visual Studio Marketplace",
      "source_title": "Visual Studio Marketplace extension statistics (extensionquery API)",
      "source_url": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=openai.chatgpt",
      "source_published": "live, pulled 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/vs-marketplace/ai-extensions-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "Cumulative install count reported by the Visual Studio Marketplace on 23 October 2026. Counts installs, including reinstalls and multiple machines, not active users. Excludes Cursor and other VS Code forks, which use other registries.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-vsm-codex-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-vsm-install-pace",
      "sentence": "Claude Code for VS Code averaged about 57,900 installs a day by October 2026, against 38,500 for GitHub Copilot, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Visual Studio Marketplace data.",
      "value": 57900,
      "unit": "installs a day",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Visual Studio Marketplace",
      "source_title": "Visual Studio Marketplace extension statistics (extensionquery API)",
      "source_url": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropic.claude-code",
      "source_published": "live, pulled 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/vs-marketplace/ai-extensions-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "Cumulative install count reported by the Visual Studio Marketplace on 23 October 2026. Counts installs, including reinstalls and multiple machines, not active users. Excludes Cursor and other VS Code forks, which use other registries.",
      "method": "Claude Code: 28,481,336 installs / 492 days since 18 June 2025 = 57,889. GitHub Copilot: 74,794,653 / 1,942 days since 29 June 2021 = 38,514. Counted to 23 October 2026.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-vsm-install-pace"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-pypl-antigravity-2026",
      "sentence": "Google Antigravity had 7.22% of IDE download searches worldwide in October 2026, about a year after it entered the index, according to PYPL.",
      "value": 7.22,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Research",
      "publisher": "PYPL",
      "source_title": "TOP IDE index (worldwide)",
      "source_url": "https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html",
      "source_published": "monthly series to October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/pypl/top-ide-index-worldwide-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "PYPL TOP IDE index: share of Google searches for \"<IDE> download\", from Google Trends, normalised to 100% across 36 tracked IDEs and smoothed over 6 months. Measures interest, not usage.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-pypl-antigravity-2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-pypl-ai-editors",
      "sentence": "Cursor and Antigravity together took 20.5% of IDE download searches in October 2026, up from 0.4% a year earlier, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from PYPL data.",
      "value": 20.5,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "PYPL",
      "source_title": "TOP IDE index (worldwide)",
      "source_url": "https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html",
      "source_published": "monthly series to October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/pypl/top-ide-index-worldwide-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "PYPL TOP IDE index: share of Google searches for \"<IDE> download\", from Google Trends, normalised to 100% across 36 tracked IDEs and smoothed over 6 months. Measures interest, not usage.",
      "method": "October 2026: Cursor 13.31% + Antigravity 7.22% = 20.53%. October 2025: Cursor 0.43% + Antigravity 0.01% = 0.44%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-pypl-ai-editors"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-pypl-cursor-passed",
      "sentence": "Cursor overtook VS Code in IDE download searches in May 2026 and stayed ahead to October 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from PYPL data.",
      "value": 2026,
      "unit": "year",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "PYPL",
      "source_title": "TOP IDE index (worldwide)",
      "source_url": "https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html",
      "source_published": "monthly series to October 2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/pypl/top-ide-index-worldwide-2026-10-23.csv",
      "sample": "PYPL TOP IDE index: share of Google searches for \"<IDE> download\", from Google Trends, normalised to 100% across 36 tracked IDEs and smoothed over 6 months. Measures interest, not usage.",
      "method": "First month with Cursor share above VS Code share: May 2026 (12.27% vs 11.73%). Cursor stayed ahead in every month to October 2026 (13.31% vs 10.18%).",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-pypl-cursor-passed"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-cursor-growth-2025",
      "sentence": "Cursor rose from 1.7% to 4.3% as developers’ primary IDE in the 12 months to mid-2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey data.",
      "value": 2.6,
      "unit": "points",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. Same half-sample, n=8,718.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question main_ide_past vs ide_main for the same 8,718 respondents: Cursor 1.7% a year earlier, 4.3% now, +2.6 points. VS Code fell from 28.4% to 26.6% in the same group.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-cursor-growth-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-cursor-from-vscode-2025",
      "sentence": "37.9% of developers whose primary IDE was Cursor in 2025 had used VS Code as their main IDE a year earlier, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains data.",
      "value": 37.9,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. Small base: 289 respondents with Cursor as primary IDE in the half-sample.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question main_ide_past among respondents whose ide_main is Cursor (n=289): VS Code 37.9%, Cursor 25.1%, IntelliJ IDEA 8.7%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-cursor-from-vscode-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-java-intellij-2025",
      "sentence": "IntelliJ IDEA was the most used IDE for Java by 71.5% of Java developers in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey data.",
      "value": 71.5,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 4,636 Java developers answered.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question java_ide, n=4,636. VS Code 8.6%, Android Studio 7.7%, Eclipse 6.3%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-java-intellij-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-python-2025",
      "sentence": "PyCharm was the main Python IDE for 40.6% of Python developers in 2025, against 34.2% for VS Code, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains data.",
      "value": 40.6,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 8,032 Python developers answered.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question python_ide, n=8,032. PyCharm Professional 24.3% + PyCharm Community 16.3% = 40.6%. VS Code 34.2%, Cursor 6.2%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-python-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-js-vscode-2025",
      "sentence": "VS Code was the main IDE for JavaScript or TypeScript for 48.1% of those developers in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains data.",
      "value": 48.1,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 4,146 JavaScript/TypeScript developers answered.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question js_ide, n=4,146. WebStorm 22.3%, another JetBrains IDE 15.1%, Cursor 6.6%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-js-vscode-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-csharp-2025",
      "sentence": "Visual Studio led JetBrains Rider by 45.3% to 44.3% as the main C# IDE in 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey data.",
      "value": 1,
      "unit": "points",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 3,555 C# developers answered.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question csharp_ide, n=3,555. Visual Studio 45.3% minus Rider 44.3% = 1.0 point. VS Code 8.8%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-csharp-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-go-2025",
      "sentence": "GoLand was the main Go IDE for 46.8% of Go developers in 2025, against 29.3% for VS Code, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains data.",
      "value": 46.8,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 1,412 Go developers answered.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question go_ide, n=1,412. Cursor 5.8%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-go-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-cpp-2025",
      "sentence": "VS Code was the main C++ IDE for 32.9% of C++ developers in 2025, ahead of CLion at 23.2%, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains data.",
      "value": 32.9,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 1,803 C++ developers answered.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question cpp_ide, n=1,803. Visual Studio 21.2%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-cpp-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-jb-php-2025",
      "sentence": "PhpStorm was the main PHP IDE for 58.9% of PHP developers in 2025, against 27.2% for VS Code, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from JetBrains data.",
      "value": 58.9,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "JetBrains",
      "source_title": "Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 raw data",
      "source_url": "https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/research/DevEco2025/RawData.zip",
      "source_published": "October 2025, downloaded 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/data/snapshots/jetbrains/devecosystem-2025-ide-tallies.csv",
      "sample": "JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, fieldwork April to June 2025, 24,534 developers after cleaning. Shares weighted with the weight column JetBrains provides to correct for country, language and JetBrains-user bias. 1,645 PHP developers answered.",
      "method": "StatisticsGlobal weighted tally of the JetBrains Developer Ecosystem 2025 raw data, question php_ide, n=1,645. Cursor 5.4%.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-jb-php-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-exp-vscode-gap",
      "sentence": "VS Code use was 8.3 points higher among developers with 1 to 5 years of experience than among those with 16+ years in 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
      "value": 8.3,
      "unit": "points",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed. 1 to 5 years: n=2,881. 16+ years: n=5,093.",
      "method": "76.6% (1 to 5 years work experience) minus 68.3% (16+ years) = 8.3 points.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-exp-vscode-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-exp-neovim",
      "sentence": "Neovim was 2.8 times as common among developers with 1 to 5 years of experience as among those with 16+ years in 2026, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
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      "unit": "x",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed. 1 to 5 years: n=2,881. 16+ years: n=5,093.",
      "method": "23.4% (1 to 5 years) / 8.3% (16+ years) = 2.82.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-exp-neovim"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-so-exp-cursor",
      "sentence": "Cursor use peaked at 17.9% among developers with 6 to 15 years of experience in 2026, against 13.3% for those with 16+ years, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Stack Overflow data.",
      "value": 17.9,
      "unit": "%",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2026",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Stack Overflow",
      "source_title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: Dev IDEs",
      "source_url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "source_published": "2026, accessed 23 October 2026",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261010080017/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/dev-ide",
      "sample": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026, fieldwork 23 June to 5 August 2026. 13,193 respondents answered the IDE question (30,903 valid responses overall), recruited through Stack Overflow channels. Multiple answers allowed. 6 to 15 years: n=4,508.",
      "method": "Stack Overflow 2026 Dev IDEs by work experience: Cursor 14.6% (1 to 5 years), 17.9% (6 to 15 years), 13.3% (16+ years). Highest of the three groups.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-so-exp-cursor"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-cursor-arr-2025-06",
      "sentence": "Cursor passed $500 million in annual recurring revenue in June 2025, according to Cursor.",
      "value": 500,
      "unit": "US$ million",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Vendor report",
      "publisher": "Cursor",
      "source_title": "Series C and Scale",
      "source_url": "https://cursor.com/blog/series-c",
      "source_published": "6 June 2025",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261006162458/https://cursor.com/blog/series-c",
      "sample": "Company statement by Anysphere, the maker of Cursor. Not audited. Annualised revenue is a run rate, not booked annual revenue.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-cursor-arr-2025-06"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-cursor-arr-2025-11",
      "sentence": "Cursor passed $1 billion in annualised revenue in November 2025, according to Cursor.",
      "value": 1,
      "unit": "US$ billion",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Vendor report",
      "publisher": "Cursor",
      "source_title": "Past, Present, and Future (Series D announcement)",
      "source_url": "https://cursor.com/blog/series-d",
      "source_published": "13 November 2025",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260926183931/https://cursor.com/blog/series-d",
      "sample": "Company statement by Anysphere, the maker of Cursor. Not audited. Annualised revenue is a run rate, not booked annual revenue.",
      "method": "",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-cursor-arr-2025-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "ide-cursor-arr-double",
      "sentence": "Cursor’s annualised revenue doubled from $500 million to $1 billion in about five months of 2025, calculated by StatisticsGlobal from Cursor data.",
      "value": 2,
      "unit": "x",
      "place": "Worldwide",
      "data_year": "2025",
      "source_type": "Our analysis",
      "publisher": "Cursor",
      "source_title": "Past, Present, and Future (Series D announcement)",
      "source_url": "https://cursor.com/blog/series-d",
      "source_published": "13 November 2025",
      "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260926183931/https://cursor.com/blog/series-d",
      "sample": "Company statement by Anysphere, the maker of Cursor. Not audited. Annualised revenue is a run rate, not booked annual revenue.",
      "method": "$1 billion (13 November 2025) / $500 million (6 June 2025) = 2.0, over 160 days.",
      "verified_on": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://statisticsglobal.org/ide-market-share/#stat-ide-cursor-arr-double"
    }
  ]
}