Comment by jazzyb
20 hours ago
> How many developers are using VSCode? How does that number compare with Emacs/Vim?
Perhaps I'm in some sort of "TUI bubble", but I'd bet good money that Emacs/Vim users outnumber VSCode users by an order of magnitude. But maybe I'm just surrounded by *nix devs.
I'll take that bet
No need to guess, the SO survey is probably still representative of the state of development environments:
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es
Note that respondents may use multiple tools, but around 76% answered VSCode, whereas 24% answered Vim.
So, I’d wager you’re indeed in a *nix bubble.
It's more indicative of the state of SO users.
Care to bet even those 24% vim devs code circles around the VSCode ones?
That is so different than I expected. Thank you for the link.
The SO survey was skewed to begin with, and by 2025 it covers a much reduced fraction of past users. See:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/437921/1593077
Not that your conclusion is necessarily wrong of course.
> but I'd bet good money that Emacs/Vim users outnumber VSCode users by an order of magnitude
No, no they don't. Enterprise and gaming alone would easily invalidate your bet.