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The Breakpoint [2025-09-30] - Best IDE in 2025?

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Meow, world!

I really enjoyed reading The Breakpoint, Product Hunt's weekly, developer-focused newsletter, and wanted to relaunch it as a token of appreciation to the community.

Here we go. The Breakpoint (2.0), a weekly thread on all things dev tools on Product Hunt.

The latest

Recent dev-first products launched on the site.

  • @Kilo Code by GitLab co-founder @sytses is bringing its fast and fair, open-source AI coding assistant to JetBrains IDEs

  • @Github Copilot just responded to Claude Code and Codex CLI with a terminal-based coding agent to edit files, run commands, and connect to MCP servers

  • @Zeplin launched an AI to review design work and catch layout inconsistencies, missed token/component usage, accessibility issues, and typos

  • @Pieter™ by @levelsio is a Windows 3.11 retro computer with working dial-up modem internet

  • @Git Pushups wants you to stay healthy while coding

Best IDE in 2025?

In the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, VS Code ranked as the most-used developer environment. I was curious to know the feeling of the community.

VS Code, Cursor, and JetBrains were among the most upvoted products, with mentions of Neovim, Windsurf, Xcode, and Zed. Different programming languages, different preferences.

Join the discussion →

That's all, folks! See you next week for another edition

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Ignat B

as always VIM!

fmerian

here to stay!

Miguel Pieras

For people with 8 terminals open: I built something for you.

Tomorrow I am launching CODIGO - an IDE to manage all your terminals from a single place.

I started using Cursor almost a year ago, then in July I used Claude Code, and in August I started with Codex. IDEs like VS Code/Cursor were designed as code editors. Then AI became a helper… but now we've reached a point where AI is the main driver and we only edit bits of code here and there. That's a new paradigm and not how IDEs were originally designed.

fmerian

@mpieras neat! enjoy your launch day

Sanskar Yadav
Cal ID

Feels like the IDE space is evolving faster than ever. AI is no longer a cabin crew, it’s becoming the whole cockpit. Hard to pick a single best when every dev workflow/language needs something different these days. But its always fun to see where the next big shift happens!

Siri Nana

Great roundup! I've bounced between VS Code and JetBrains but Vursor's context-awareness has surprised me. Curious if Zed or Windsurf might carve niche audiences, like Neovim did for power users. Options are exploding!