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Just to maintain, evolve, support and do release testing of only one product: Intellij IDEA, checking the thousand of details and flows, between frameworks and
by edpichler 9y ago
Just to maintain, evolve, support and do release testing of only one product: Intellij IDEA, checking the thousand of details and flows, between frameworks and platforms it runs, to me, it seems a good amount of work.
And a company have more departments than Software Development: Finance, Administration, RH, Marketing, etc.
- smacktoward 9y agoBut a lot (the majority even, maybe?) of JetBrains' products are just IDEA plus some extra language-specific tooling. So presumably they have a relatively large number of people hacking on the core of the whole product line, IDEA, and then just a small number of people to add whatever language-specific polish each IDEA-based product requires.
- blibble 9y agothe changes for each new release of IntelliJ IDEA gets smaller each year there's a reason they moved to a subscription model