![]() ![]() Information is very important in decision making, and corporations The info and activity of demographics and market research. Statistics such as market share, is broadly speaking part of Although, these are almost always carried out in a facetious fashion among tech geekers, without any hint about the social importance of these kind of questions. We all have heard “vi vs emacs” a million times, and have participated in brawls and polls about which editors are the best. Addendum: Shenli wrote to me that and vi is about 80% of market share in area, China. Also, BBEdit is widely popular throughout the 1990s, but its user base gradually declined with the arrival of Personally, i've been using Mac in about 1991.įrom roughly 1990 to 2002, the following are the major editor/platform used on the Mac, each basically replaced the previous one chronologically:īut since the arrival of OS X, CodeWarrior and SimpleText went extinct primarily due to the platform change and arrival of XCode and TextEdit. This conveniently marks the beginning year to be considered on this list. GEdit, roughly same popularity as Nedit according to google trends, but it doesn't have Wikipedia entry!Īlso note: Google trends has records back to about 2004. (Never developed for MS technologies) So if you work in the Windows platform and knew some of the commonly used IDEs or editors, please let me know.Īmong the above list, some editor should be there but for one reason or another i wasn't able to use Google Trends to get some sensible statistics are: I haven't done much research on what IDEs are common on the Windows (for example, when shown as a pie chart, Microsoft Word and Visual Studio together might be 90%, while all the rest is just 10%) (and limiting the entries to 10 or so) Preferably, also show the data by a pie-chart so that we can see the relative gap between adjacent entries. Ideally, i'd like to list all programer's text editors and IDEs, by the number of users. Those in parenthesis are text editors not used for programing, but included here just to give context, and can give some sense about the accuracy of Google Trend for market share. This is not a very accurate measurement of user base, but can be used as a starting point of understanding. Emacs and vi are often mentioned by non-users, for example, “vi vs emacs”.) , (num of users are probably below Wordpad.The following lists them in order of search results by Google Trends as of 2007-08. This page shows the popularity of programer's text editors and IDEs. ![]()
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