What's the best IDE in 2025?
According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS Code and @Visual Studio remain the most used dev environments, despite the rise of subscription-based, AI-enabled code editors—@Cursor and @Windsurf among others. Both maintain their top spots relying on extensions as optional, paid AI services like @Github Copilot and @Kilo Code.
Curious which IDE the Product Hunt community uses the most?
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Other than VS Code, I also end up using Xcode for swift programming.
Humans in the Loop
absolutely! for the record, 10% of respondents mentioned @Xcode as their most used IDE according to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (link).
I was using intellij idea from a long time since I started working in tech back in 2010 but since last year It's all cursor.
and on the AI side, here’s what I'm experimenting with in 2025:
Code reviews → CodeRabbit
Programming / IDE → Cursor
Problem solving / prototyping → Codex GPT-5
AI assited coding → Claude Code + GPT-5 codex
These together help streamline my overall dev flow.
Humans in the Loop
@theankurtyagi great stack! heard great things about @cubic for code reviews, and @v0 by Vercel for quick prototyping (and problem solving for all things @Next.js)
DiffSense
Cline is just miles ahead of anything else. Esp for heavy use. You can use claude code subscription (to save on token cost 55k premium calls for $100 a month) with it etc. And unlike claude code you actually see whats going on. And you can rewind and stop mid session etc.
Humans in the Loop
any experience with @Kilo Code? heard great reviews from their recent launch
DiffSense
@fmerian Kilo code is pay as you go. That 100$ day if you go full tilt. Using Roo/Cline with Claude sub is the ultimate cheat code. You get the same for 1000x cheaper. If you want to try it for free use Roo/Cline with Gemini cli / Qwen Cli. 1k calls a day for free.
After several years of VSCode (with a bunch of extensions). I switched to Zed + Claude code + GitButler.
I have fewer in-editor features, but it's ok. I rely a lot on some CLI tools (linter, test execution, compiler, builder) with shared configuration between Zed, CLI, Claude Code (and CI). But I gain faster code editing, lower resource usage, and still have the main features in the editor (code completion, format, launch test, search/replace with multi buffers, multi-cursor, rename symbol, code navigation,...).For context, I mainly code with Rust, Configuration files (YAML, TOML, Helm), and sometimes JS/TS.
Humans in the Loop
fully agree, David. @Zed definitely has my preference—fast, lightweight, beautifully crafted, and open-source.