Top Code Editors & IDEs in 2025

The following is a round-up of popular and still in development tools for game programmers, specifically code editors, terminal based editors, IDEs and modern AI assisted tools. If you are looking for a new editor hopefully you will find it here. We go into slightly more depth with each tool in the video below.

Terminal Based Editors

Emacs

Vi/Vim

Nano

Neovim

Helix

Micro

Kakoune

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

Visual Studio 2022

Xcode

Qt Creator

Eclipse

IntelliJ IDEA

Various JetBrains IDEs (WebStorm, Rider, CLion, etc)

Apache NetBeans

RAD Studio

Lazarus Pascal IDE

CodeLite

KDevelop (May not be under development anymore)

Code::Blocks

Text Editor ++

Notepad++

Sublime Text

UltraEdit

BBEdit

Bluefish

Kate

LiteXL

Geany

Hybrid Editors/IDEs

Visual Studio Code

VSCodium

Cursor

Windsurf (Formerly Codium)

Trae

PearAI

Cline (VS Plugin)

Void

Zed

Fleet

Eclipse Theia

Lapce

10xEditor

Atom (Now Defunct)

Pulsar (Atom Lives!)

You can learn more about these terminal editors, code editors and IDEs in the video below. If I missed your favorite editor, please let me know in the YouTube video comments.

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