Best ide on Reddit
121 reviews from r/rust, r/cpp_questions, r/unrealengine and 16 more subreddits
121 reviews from
and
By Brand
/By Product
#1
VS Code
4.5
(20)
"Supported by Epic on Windows"
"Consistent intellisense and automatic headers"
"Don't use an IDE yet, get vscode"
"Both are great."
"Copilot Chat is built into VSCode so it reads your code as you type"
"Best language support. Full integration with Rust-Analyzer, semantic highlighting, etc. Lightweight-ish (in terms of features) and works for many languages."
"Lightweight, customizable and fast running"
"Senior software engineer with 10+ YOE and I use VS Code by choice."
"Transparent WSL support and python / git integration"
"Impressed by VS Code integration"
#2
Neovim
4.6
(9)
"Don't use an IDE yet, get neovim"
"Config made by Primagen"
"I use neovim these days"
"Tweak at your will to be your friend for every programing language"
"Much better than vscode"
"It takes away all the distractions of other tools while learning. It can sit down and practice programming easier, especially when the terminal is in full screen. You can even have the directory and the terminal open and easily switch between them."
"Works great for me"
"Love"
"Customize your IDE"
#3
JetBrains
4.6
(9)
"Its free if you are a student or teacher."
"Rider all the way"
"Recommend CLion for C++"
"Handles the updates"
"Very promising"
"Focus is on data analysis and integration of jupyter, SQL etc. in one IDE with a focus on data science and data analysis"
"Focus is on data analysis and integration of jupyter, SQL etc. in one IDE with a focus on data science and data analysis"
"CLion looks cool"
"Not a big fan"
#4
Visual Studio
4.7
(7)
"Free and very powerful, with great debugging support"
"Supported by Epic on Windows"
"The latest Visual Studio"
"On windows"
"Unironically use Visual Studio"
"Your best bet would be one of the old versions of Visual Studio that is supported on XP (VS express 2010 and below)."
"VS + Visual Assist X"
#5
IntelliJ
4.2
(5)
"Great IDE for C++ development."
"Felt very much at home with the rust plugin"
"I like it."
"IntelliJ Ultimate is a powerful IDE."
"Cluttered"
#6
PyCharm
4.0
(5)
"I really like pycharm"
"Both are great."
"Been using Pycharm professionally for five years"
"Basically what I used when I was learning python"
"The PyCharm license I was provided sits rotting."
#7
Nvim
4.8
(4)
"Very dark 'midnight' theme"
"Rust extra"
"Works fine"
"Similar to VScode but with terminal-based modal editing. Good if you're an advanced keyboard user."
#8
RustRover
4.5
(4)
"RustRover is a great tool for Rust development."
"Best IDE support. Integrations with other Jetbrains products, complex refactors, etc. Uses its own analyzer (NOT Rust-Analyzer) which is better in some regards, but mostly worse in my experience."
"Good tool for Rust programming."
"Comprehensive solution"
#9
Sublime Text
5.0
(3)
"LSP, LSP-clangd, CMakeBuilder, GitSavvy"
"Typst syntax highligthing"
"Actively supported and maintained"
#10
Vim
4.0
(3)
"If you are comfortable with modal editors"
"Powerful text editor with customizable plugins."
"Sometimes i use vim"
#11
Helix
4.0
(3)
"Use Helix"
"Similar to Nvim but with a better user experience. No support plugins yet, and no full LSP highlighting."
"Customize your IDE"
#12
Emacs
4.0
(3)
"Customize your IDE"
"My only editor for years"
"Less mentally stable"
#13
Geany
4.0
(3)
"Fast enough"
"I use Geany (free and multiplatform)"
"Simple and fast"
#14
Rider
5.0
(2)
"Supported by Epic on Windows"
"Rider makes coding more fun"
#15
Visual Studio Code
5.0
(2)
"Works great with plugins easy to manage and use"
"With c++ extension if cross platform"
#16
Arduino
4.5
(2)
"It does everything the IDE does but from a command line"
"With a bit of extra work you can integrate the language server"
#17
GitHub
3.5
(2)
"We're fans of GitHub Codespaces at work."
"Slows down LSP (on Rust build lock) too much to be comfortable"
#18
WebStorm
5.0
(1)
"Very code"
#19
Android Studio
5.0
(1)
"Go into Android studio"
#20
Xcode
5.0
(1)
"Go into Xcode"
#21
Sublime
5.0
(1)
"Least cluttered"
#22
LaTeX
5.0
(1)
"Text editor for python"
#23
Skim
5.0
(1)
"Previewing the pdf"
#24
Nvim Plugin
5.0
(1)
"Works really well"
#25
React
5.0
(1)
"It works great for Ruby, or course, and pretty good for javascript too without needing additional plugins or configuration like VS Code tends to."
#26
Ruby
5.0
(1)
"It's great."
#27
VSCodium
5.0
(1)
"A version of Visual Studio Code without the MS Telemetry."
#28
HeidiDB
5.0
(1)
"It works well, too, and seems to be free."
#29
CLion
5.0
(1)
"The latest CLion"
#30
Debian Linux
5.0
(1)
"1 GHz Pentium 3 with just under 1 GB RAM"
#31
PlatformIO
5.0
(1)
"Compile and upload from the command line"
#32
RStudio
5.0
(1)
"Nice keyboard shortcuts, excellent debugger interface, has everything I need"
#33
Gitpod
5.0
(1)
"Really good"
#34
Unreal
5.0
(1)
"Packed to the brim with features"
#35
Software Mansion
5.0
(1)
"Software Mansion just announced a Code extension for RN development"
#36
5.0
(1)
"I have fallen in love with [google colab](https://colab.research.google.com/#)."
#37
Apple
5.0
(1)
"Xcode on Mac"
#38
Apache
5.0
(1)
"Added c++ support"
#39
Neo
5.0
(1)
"Use NEO VIM"
#40
Microsoft
5.0
(1)
"Visual Studio Community Edition on windows"
#41
LazyVim
4.0
(1)
"Try installing LazyVim if you dont want to congigure it yourself whiel starting out"
#42
DbVisualizer
4.0
(1)
"The free one will get you a single tab to work in."
#43
Spyder
4.0
(1)
"Made for data analysis, includes jupyter in a side pane"
#44
VS
2.0
(2)
"Less light weight"
"Surrendered"
#45
MonoDevelop
3.0
(1)
"You could also take a look at MonoDevelop, although I’m not sure whether or not there is a version with XP support."
#46
Acer
2.0
(1)
"Unbelievably slow"
#47
DevC++
1.0
(1)
"Avoiding DevC++ for many reasons"
#48
.NET
1.0
(1)
"Install/run"
#49
Asus
1.0
(1)
"Outdated when I was a kid"
#50
Mac
1.0
(1)
"The 2.0 ide I find unusable on a recent Mac PowerBook. Useless to me."
#51
C#
1.0
(1)
"Bad time"
Discover your audience
GummySearch is an audience research toolkit for 130,000 unique communities on Reddit.
If you are looking for startup problems to solve, want to validate your idea or find your first customers online, GummySearch is for you.
Sign up for free, get community insights in minutes.
Tell me more
Get started
