When developers ask AI which IDE, database, or infra tool to pick, here’s who ends up on that shortlist. IDE, database, and infra choices stick — a bad pick costs migration time later. See who AI names for engineers this week before you invest in evals — and track which competitors stay on (or fall off) that shortlist.
GitLab took #1 in Developer Tools.
| Compare | Pos | Product | Company | Change | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JetBrains IDEs | — | 60.2 | 55% | 3.7 | NEW | |
| 2 | VS Code | Microsoft | 53.7 | 45% | 4.0 | 2 | |
| 3 | Express.js | — | 51.8 | 18% | 1.5 | NEW | |
| 4 | Go (Golang) | — | 50.0 | 9% | 1.0 | NEW | |
| 5 | Node.js | — | 48.7 | 18% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 6 | Tabnine | Tabnine | 48.7 | 18% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 7 | IntelliJ IDEA | — | 47.6 | 36% | 4.3 | NEW | |
| 8 | NestJS | — | 45.9 | 18% | 2.5 | NEW | |
| 9 | PyCharm | JetBrains | 43.8 | 36% | 5.3 | 1 | |
| 10 | Python | — | 43.7 | 9% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 11 | Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 43.3 | 18% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 12 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 43.3 | 64% | 12.3 | 6 | |
| 13 | Git | — | 42.9 | 55% | 9.3 | NEW | |
| 14 | GitLab | — | 41.1 | 64% | 14.3 | NEW | |
| 15 | Koa.js | — | 40.9 | 18% | 3.5 | NEW | |
| 16 | WebStorm | JetBrains | 40.5 | 36% | 6.3 | 6 | |
| 17 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 39.7 | 27% | 5.0 | 16 | |
| 18 | CodeWhisperer | — | 38.3 | 9% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 19 | JetBrains AI Assistant | — | 38.3 | 9% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 20 | Visual Studio | Microsoft | 37.0 | 36% | 7.5 | 17 |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.