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About code.visualstudio.com (Developer Tools)

This page provides details about code.visualstudio.com (Developer Tools) which was ranked #6 out of 177 in the list of sources (5 citations (3.3% share)) in answers from AI models (Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest), OpenAI ChatGPT Latest, Google Gemini Flash (latest), X.AI Grok (latest)) when they were asked the following 1 question: "What does the Developer Tools industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry." on Dec 30, 2025 by AI Chat Watch. This source is referenced for brands: Microsoft, GitHub, Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA +1 more.

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Pages from code.visualstudio.com (1 link)

URL Path Citations Position
code.visualstudio.com 5 8.3

Brands Referenced By This Website (6 brands)

Brand Voice Mentions
GitHub GitHub 100% 43
Microsoft Microsoft 82.3% 18
JetBrains JetBrains 25.3% 15
Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code 11.8% 6
IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA 5.6% 6
Git Git 1.8% 3

Citations from AI Responses

Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest) (1 citation)

What does the Developer Tools industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

[...] rong in developer tools and AI/ML - **Vercel** - [https://vercel.com](https://vercel.com) - Frontend deployment platform - **Netlify** - [https://www.netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com) - Jamstack deployment platform ## Best Products & Services ### IDEs & Code Editors - **Visual Studio Code** - [https://code.visualstudio.com](https://code.visualstudio.com) - Most popular code editor - **IntelliJ IDEA** - [https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) - Leading Java IDE - **Cursor** - [https://cursor.sh](https://cursor.sh) - AI-powered code editor (emerging) ### Version Control & Collaboration - **Git** - [https://git-scm.com](ht [...]

code.visualstudio.com December 30, 2025

OpenAI ChatGPT Latest (2 citations)

What does the Developer Tools industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

[...] ication” DevSecOps platform. - [Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com/) – especially [Jira](https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira) + [Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org/product/) + [Confluence](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence). ### IDEs / editors (where most developer time is spent) - [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) (by [Microsoft](https://www.microsoft.com/)) – dominant general-purpose editor ecosystem. - [JetBrains](https://www.jetbrains.com/) IDEs (e.g., [IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)). - Notable long-lived communities: [Vim](https://www.vim.org/), [Neovim](https://neovim.io/), [Eclipse]( [...]

code.visualstudio.com December 30, 2025

[...] s). --- ## “Best products and services” (commonly considered best-in-class) This varies by stack, but these are widely adopted “default choices” today: - Code hosting & PR workflow: [GitHub](https://github.com/) - All-in-one DevOps platform: [GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/) - Editor/IDE: [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/), [JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) - Containers/Kubernetes: [Docker](https://www.docker.com/), [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) - IaC: [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/), [Pulumi](https://www.pulumi.com/) - Observability SaaS: [Datadog](https://www.datadoghq. [...]

code.visualstudio.com December 30, 2025

Google Gemini Flash (latest) (1 citation)

What does the Developer Tools industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

[...] 1. Dominant market leaders and brands The market is dominated by "Big Tech" firms that provide end-to-end ecosystems (IDE, Cloud, CI/CD). * **Microsoft (GitHub & VS Code):** The clear leader in version control and the world's most popular code editor. * [GitHub](https://github.com) * [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com) * **Atlassian:** Dominates the project management and documentation layer of development. * [Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com) * **GitLab:** The primary competitor to GitHub, focusing on a single application for the entire DevSecOps lifecycle. * [GitLab](https://about.gitlab.co [...]

code.visualstudio.com December 30, 2025

X.AI Grok (latest) (1 citation)

What does the Developer Tools industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

[...] rket reports like [Grand View Research's Developer Tools Market Report](https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/developer-tools-market) and [G2's Developer Tools Grid](https://www.g2.com/categories/developer-tools). ### Dominant Market Leaders and Brands - **Microsoft**: Dominates with [Visual Studio Code (VS Code)](https://code.visualstudio.com/) (most popular IDE/editor per Stack Overflow Survey) and [GitHub](https://github.com) (leading VCS platform, acquired by Microsoft). GitHub Copilot [GitHub Copilot](https://github.com/features/copilot) leads AI coding assistants. - **JetBrains**: Powers professional IDEs like [IntelliJ IDEA](https: [...]

code.visualstudio.com December 30, 2025