[rickhanlonii]

It's interesting to see that over 34.5% of developers surveyed use some flavor of a JetBrains IDE:

Intellij - 17%

PhpStorm - 7.4%

PyCharm - 6.8%

RubyMine - 1.7%

WebStorm - 1.6%

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Total - 34.5%

This makes the Intellij IDE the third most used environment surveyed. If you're not using a text editor, chances are you're using a JetBrains IDE. I'd be interested in seeing the text editor vs IDE breakdown (broken down by age and experience) once the full data is released.

[marklubi]

Don't forget about Android Studio at 13%

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/05/intellij-idea-and-and...

[zippergz]

Were people only allowed to pick one? If not, I'd assume the total is lower than that since some people probably use more than one of them.

[wpietri]

Yeah. I've used multiple ones for years. Especially now that they have the license that gives you access to all of them, I prefer to use the language-specific one unless I'm doing a project that requires multiple languages.

[manyxcxi]

I've definitely noticed the language specific ones are a little nicer with automating some of those workflows that are very specific to the language. Like starting a new PHP project in PHP Storm vs IDEA

[arvinsim]

I have used Notepad++, Sublime, Vim, Spacemacs and the Jetbrains suite.

If I want to do a large enough project, the Jetbrains suite really can't be beaten in terms of just getting things done IMO.

[manyxcxi]

Probably speaks to the quality of their product. There are a bajillion free IDEs out there and people are willing to PAY IntelliJ.

That being said, their personal licensing is so affordable that I wouldn't blink to buy it out of my own pocket it if my company didn't pay for it. If you don't need IDEA, I think most of the smaller ones are $50 for a personal license.

I used Eclipse for Java and Komodo for Python/PHP for years. Then Komodo 8 was so bad that I gave PHP Storm a try and liked it so much I gave IDEA a try for Java and never looked back.