What's the best IDE in 2025?
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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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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.
Kilo Code
@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)
Vscode, no doubt
Kilo Code
yep, @VS Code is definitely leading the way
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 $100 a month) with it etc. And unlike claude code you actually see whats going on. And you can rewind and stop mid session etc.
Kilo Code
any experience with @Kilo Code? heard great reviews from their recent launch
DiffSense
@fmerian Kilo code is pay as you go. That 100$ 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.
Kilo Code
fully agree, David. @Zed definitely has my preference—fast, lightweight, beautifully crafted, and open-source.