Having used/fought/loved and cursed the products for years, I am quite familiar with how amazingly complex and wonky these things are.
And they just rammed the AI on in a fundamental level. And did it after loosing a lot of talent. And being effectively a Russian company, had to deal with that earthquake, moving and losing people.
Honestly grateful still works as code editors
I kind of get it, the assistant has improved a lot and some of the reviews were referring to the old state of things. I prefer its chat functionality to GitHub copilot and its integration with the jetbrains IDEs is pretty good.
I am a little soured by the fact that they won’t reimburse me for the license I bought when they made the product free.
They also really need to work on making Junie work in WSL.
Jetbrains seems to want to lose customers. But besides VSCode, which other proper IDEs exist. Eclipse is a joke, Netbeans is basically dead, VSCodium and other forks are Electron beasts,… There are a bunch of editors out there cosplaying as IDEs, but let’s be honest, they are nowhere near as good as proper IDEs, nor as easy to use.
nvim users spend decades and have terrabytes of plugins, helix has no plugin system, emacs is hand cancer, and Kate is a great editor, but no IDE. It feels like the Chrome and Firefox situation, unfortunately.
I know someone will say Zed, but isn’t that Mac first? Linux users probably come last, so also not a great option.
Emacs with evil/evil collection, or meow, or vanilla but using a different keyboard with thumb clusters.