I recently ran a short survey to understand what IDEs are the most popular for Java development in 2024.
First, thank you to everyone who participated.
Now, let’s look at the results:
As we can see, IntelliJ is the most popular Java IDE (including both the Community and Ultimate versions), followed by Eclipse.
Visual Studio Code is also a notable entry here, coming in at number 3, which puts it ahead of NetBeans.
The results were collected over email from July 2 to July 10, 2024.
In total, there were 5788 respondents, with some users choosing more than one option:
| IDE | Responses |
|---|---|
| IntelliJ | 4418 |
| Eclipse | 1100 |
| VSCode | 730 |
| NetBeans | 426 |
| Other | 347 |
To see the evolution of IDE market share, we can compare this with a similar survey I ran in 2019:
At this point, IntelliJ was still the number one choice, but with a smaller percentage than today. In the meantime, the percentage of IntelliJ users has continued to grow, while Eclipse has decreased in popularity.
