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Categories and Ranking

Coder
Ranking in IDE
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (27th)
Eclipse Luna
Ranking in IDE
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IDE category, the mindshare of Coder is 3.3%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Eclipse Luna is 4.9%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IDE Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Eclipse Luna4.9%
Coder3.3%
Other91.8%
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Featured Reviews

JK
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Centralized research workspace has streamlined GPU access and simplified remote collaboration
The best features Coder offers include easy integration into a remote environment that is accessible from everywhere, VS Code integrations, and AI integrations. The AI integrations I mentioned include various ways people access AI, such as using Cursor and Claude with various models. We have fairly extensive licensing as we are a biologics company, so the integration with Anthropic's Life Sciences has been wonderful as well as the integration with cloud workflow. Coder has positively impacted my organization by providing a central place for people to run their research and enabling us as administrators to focus on one aspect of researcher interactions with our clusters, so we do not have to provide much education or options for integrating their workflows into our clusters.
RJ
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Good plugins and helpful templates with a useful auto-code suggestion feature
Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast. Thanks to Eclipse, we can deliver fast and well-compiled code as it compiles the code on every hit which stops developers from writing bad code instantly. On top of this, we can integrate other software like Tomcat, and MySQL in Eclipse very easily which makes development even faster. Now, we can deploy our Java app directly into Tomcat from Eclipse itself which saves a lot of time in development. The same thing is true in MySQL. we can see data in Eclipse itself using SQL queries. There's no need to install a query browser application.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Coder is a strong solution for developers who want a consistent cloud-based and repeatable development environment."
"Coder is very stable and incredibly reliable."
"It is very extensible and uses resources optimally."
"It works like a one-stop shop for all of our application development requirements."
"Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast."
"Eclipse is a neat IDE; it works as a one-stop shop for all of our application development requirements, including development, debugging, unit testing, and an extensive list of plugins to extend functionality."
 

Cons

"Coder can be improved by making setup easier for users who are not very experienced with infrastructure or Terraform style."
"Eclipse can sometimes be a plugin nightmare. Various plugins require different versions of the same plugin running for different reasons."
"I would give the technical support a rating of zero."
"I would expect the team to fix any existing bugs related to performance and make it more stable for future releases."
"I would like to see it extend native support for functional languages like Scala."
"The development of the product needs improvement."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
23%
Construction Company
21%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Educational Organization
8%
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Coder?
Coder can be improved by making setup easier for users who are not very experienced with infrastructure or Terraform style. The first setup can require technical knowledge. Better guided setup with...
What is your primary use case for Coder?
My main use case for Coder is creating consistent remote development environments. I use it to prepare a workspace with tools like Git, Docker, Python, and Node.js, as well as automation testing. I...
What advice do you have for others considering Coder?
My advice is to invest time in building good workspace templates from the beginning. The real value of Coder comes when your environments are standardized and repeatable. I would also recommend mon...
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