Java IDEs in 2024 – Survey Results

Last updated: July 8, 2024

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:

Java IDEs 2024 survey 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:

IDE Adoption in 2019 chart

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.

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