Do you think Statistics: product versions in use | JetBrains Marketplace Documentation will be updated soon? This would be interesting.
For me, 2025 IDEs still represent 30% of my (38k) users. More exactly: 23% of 253 and 7% of 252.
Both metrics are useful, but I think it’s important to keep in mind they may change, depending on what you count:
- IDEs in general
- IDEs that have 3rd-party plugins installed. I know many developers who are not allowed to install 3rd-party plugins, and many others never tried to install a 3rd-party plugin (some of them are not comfortable with their IDE), which can explain the difference with IDEs in general. As a plugin developer, I prefer to focus (and support) IDEs that have 3rd-party plugins installed.
- this may also vary depending on the 3rd-party plugin (based on its type—plugin or theme—and its features)
- the targeted IDEs. Per example, the current stable version of Android Studio (Panda 4) is based on IJ 253.
So, in my opinion, it is therefore worth supporting at least the 253 IDEs.
Other subject: this also leads me to Justifying split mode architecture for third party plugin authors - #4 by yuriy.artamonov
The top 10 large enterprise customers is interesting, but do they use (our) 3rd-party plugins? Things like that. I think you understand why I’m not a big fan of statistics. They are useful, but difficult to interpret, especially when we don’t know the details (but I completely understand they have to stay private, unfortunately).