--- title: The Best Code Editors & IDEs in 2025 | daily.dev description: A comprehensive overview of 40+ programming tools across four categories: terminal-based editors (Emacs, Vim, Neovim, Helix), full IDEs (Visual Studio, Xcode,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-code-editors-ides-in-2025-k6jcl0yca twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Best Code Editors & IDEs in 2025 | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive overview of 40+ programming tools across four categories: terminal-based editors (Emacs, Vim, Neovim, Helix), full IDEs (Visual Studio, Xcode,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-code-editors-ides-in-2025-k6jcl0yca og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K6JcL0ycA.png og:image:alt: The Best Code Editors & IDEs in 2025 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Best Code Editors & IDEs in 2025 **[Gamefromscratch](https://daily.dev/sources/gamefromscratch)** · 30 min read · 121 upvotes · 9 comments ## Summary A comprehensive overview of 40+ programming tools across four categories: terminal-based editors (Emacs, Vim, Neovim, Helix), full IDEs (Visual Studio, Xcode, JetBrains suite, Eclipse), powerful text editors (Notepad++, Sublime Text, UltraEdit), and modern hybrid editors (Visual Studio Code and its many forks including Cursor, Windsurf, Zed). The guide covers both free and commercial options, highlighting their strengths, target audiences, and current development status as of 2025. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sathvikspartan** · 5 upvotes > My personal takes are : > Java - intelliJ IDEA. > python - Pycharm / Google colab > Web development - vscode **@giofar** · 2 upvotes > There is no best IDE, only a favourite IDE. **@infyneis** · 2 upvotes > Legends will use NeoVim **@mattho** · 2 upvotes > Emacs isn't terminal based. Is a GUI. It does support a terminal mode but natively it is a gui **@nvimbtw** · 1 upvotes > Neovim --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#jetbrains](https://daily.dev/tags/jetbrains), [#vim](https://daily.dev/tags/vim), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-code-editors-ides-in-2025-k6jcl0yca) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Best Code Editors \u0026 IDEs in 2025","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-code-editors-ides-in-2025-k6jcl0yca","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-code-editors-ides-in-2025-k6jcl0yca"},"datePublished":"2025-05-29T16:35:27.675Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:28:34.768Z","description":"A comprehensive overview of 40+ programming tools across four categories: terminal-based editors (Emacs, Vim, Neovim, Helix), full IDEs (Visual Studio, Xcode,...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rEZJWk-rjcQ/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rEZJWk-rjcQ/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Gamefromscratch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Gamefromscratch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--EcPfFcSs--/f_auto/v1724391677/logos/gamefromscratch","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/gamefromscratch"},"commentCount":9,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-code-editors-ides-in-2025-k6jcl0yca","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":121},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":9}],"keywords":"devtools,jetbrains,vim,vscode","timeRequired":"PT30M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Best Code Editors \u0026 IDEs in 2025","description":"A comprehensive overview of 40+ programming tools across four categories: terminal-based editors (Emacs, Vim, Neovim, Helix), full IDEs (Visual Studio, Xcode,...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rEZJWk-rjcQ/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2025-05-29T16:35:27.675Z","duration":"PT30M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/K6JcL0ycA","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/rEZJWk-rjcQ"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Gamefromscratch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/gamefromscratch"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Best Code Editors \u0026 IDEs in 2025"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-code-editors-ides-in-2025-k6jcl0yca","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"My personal takes are :\nJava - 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