Issue #135 (Turn UI Sketches Into Code)11/20/24
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Have you ever wondered if Visual Studio Code would ever fall from top spot as the IDE of choice for most developers and programmers today? It seems like something that may never happen, but I'm sure that's what a lot of people thought about previously popular IDEs and even libraries like jQuery.
There are a few different surveys we could look at to see how VS Code has grown and also to see if any other IDEs have started to gain any momentum. For our purposes here, let's take a look at the popular Stack Overflow Developer Survey over the past 5+ years.
First,
in 2019 there was a "Most Popular Development Environments" section that showed VS Code in first place at 50.7%.
In
2020, there didn't seem to be the same question or any discussion of IDEs, so there's no indication if there was any growth in that area. Maybe I missed it? But it doesn't seem to be there.
In
2021, they went back to a question about most popular IDEs, which once again had VS Code at the top, with a much larger percentage share.
There were also questions about what IDEs people 'love' and 'worked with vs. wanted to work with' that VS Code did well in, though Neovim was the top IDE in 'most loved'.
In 2022, the most popular IDE category remained and once again VS Code was at the top with some growth compared to the previous year.
Next we move to
2023 which, percentage-wise, is the first slight dip in usage or popularity for VS Code. Once again there are also questions about how much people like their tools, which you may want to check out.
And finally, the most recent survey,
2024, shows that VS Code continues to maintain its lead at about the same percentage of use.
Again, you could dive deeper into the numbers by looking at 'most loved' which they now call 'admired and desired'. Maybe I'll consider that for a future issue, as that may give us an indication of what the future of VS Code's popularity is.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
