Ship: which would you rather ship with?

Ship pack ranks five coding tools by which you'd rather ship with: Cursor, VS Code, IntelliJ, Neovim and Copilot. The first four are habit-frame editors; Copilot is an in-editor assistant. Pairwise taps become your session order — not a benchmark, not a leaderboard, and nobody pays for a rank.

Questions

What is in the Ship pack?

Five coding tools: Cursor, VS Code, IntelliJ, Neovim and Copilot. Cursor, VS Code, IntelliJ and Neovim are editors you open to write and ship code; Copilot is an assistant that sits inside an editor rather than replacing it. Cursor is an AI-native fork of VS Code, IntelliJ is a full JetBrains IDE with its own build and refactor tooling, and Neovim is a terminal editor you configure yourself rather than one that ships configured. They are shown two at a time and you tap the one you'd rather ship with, until every pair has been settled and the pack has your order. The list is fixed for this pack; nothing else is mixed in, and no product link sits behind a tap.

Why is Copilot in a list of editors?

Because it is the odd one out on purpose, and that split matters structurally, not just by name. Cursor, VS Code, IntelliJ and Neovim are places you write code — habit-frame editors you open, arrange and live inside for a session. Copilot is not an editor at all; it is a suggestion engine that runs inside one of them, reading your file and proposing lines you accept or skip. Ranking a suggestion engine against four editor shells forces a concrete choice about what you actually reach for when you ship: the frame you write inside, or the assistant riding along inside that frame. This pack does not compare feature matrices, autocomplete quality or which combination is objectively fastest, and it does not test any of the five on a real repository. It only records which one — shell or assistant — you would rather defend as your daily pick for this session.

How does the Ship pack ranking work?

Rank'em shows two tools at a time under the same prompt: which would you rather ship with. You tap one, then the next unsettled pair appears, and so on until every pair is settled. With five items that means a short run of forced choices rather than stars or a score sheet. The site turns those pairwise taps into one ordered list for this session. There is no score to grind, no timer, no undo ladder and no second pass that revises what you already chose. When the last pair is done, the pack is ranked: what you tapped is the ranking.

Is this a benchmark of editors or coding tools?

No. Nothing here is measured, timed, graded or A/B tested. There is no speed score, no plugin count, no capability checklist and no shared exam the five take. Cursor, VS Code, IntelliJ, Neovim and Copilot can each feel different for the same task, and this page does not try to decide which editor is stronger or which assistant writes better code. Benchmarks elsewhere measure tasks; this pack only records preference. The order comes only from which one you tapped in each pair, so it is a habit order for the day, not an evaluation.

Is this a leaderboard, and can anyone pay for a higher rank?

No on both. This is not a public climb and not a crowd table of the best IDE. The finished order is yours for this session from your taps alone. There is no aggregate scoreboard that other people climb, no sponsored slot, and nobody pays this site for placement or for a higher position in the pack. Footer line stays the same: not a leaderboard.

Is my Ship ranking saved, shared, or tied to a name or email?

The ranking you finish is for this session on this device. There is no sign-in, no name field and no email field on this page or elsewhere on the site. You are not building a public profile, and the pack does not require an account to play. Optional share is a poster of your own order if you choose to save or send it; that is still your list, not a paid placement and not a sitewide leaderboard. Ranking stays client-side for the session — the page is not collecting your codebase, repo names or editor telemetry.

Why rank shipping tools if the page is not picking a winner?

Because Rank'em is a preference exercise, not a verdict. Putting five named tools in pairs forces a concrete choice about which one you reach for when you ship, instead of a vague claim that they are all fine or that one is objectively the best IDE. Education here means naming the tools, explaining the pairwise mechanic, and stating clearly that the finished list is yours alone. When the pairs are done you have a personal habit order you can disagree with tomorrow. The page describes what is being ranked and how the taps work; it does not tell you which editor to buy, which assistant to subscribe to, or where to download anything.

Does tapping a tool open that product or an affiliate link?

No. A tap only records which of the two you would rather ship with in this Rank'em session. It does not open Cursor, VS Code, IntelliJ, Neovim or Copilot, and it does not jump to a download page, an extension marketplace listing or a pricing page. It does not follow an affiliate or paid placement URL. Amazon links are not part of this pack. The page stays education about how the pack works and what is being ranked, not a storefront and not a referral funnel.