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Is my understanding correct that IntelliJ IDEA will not have Kotlin/Native support, it will be only part of CLion? https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kot

by AhtiK 9y ago

Is my understanding correct that IntelliJ IDEA will not have Kotlin/Native support, it will be only part of CLion? https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kotlinnative-ide-support-preview/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kotlinnative-ide-s... Is this because C and C++ is CLion-only? I'd love to see C&C++ support become part of IntelliJ IDEA bundle ;) Not sure why it hasn't been this way.

teilo 9y ago
JetBrains IDEs are tooled for particular language workflows, but can, to a certain extent accommodate other languages through its plugins, though not as thoroughly as the corresponding IDE. (For example, you can still use the Python plugin in IntelliJ, but PyCharm has far more extensive support.) CLion is the product targeting the CLang family of languages, and therefore that is where, quite reasonably, JetBrains has targeted its Kotlin/Native support.
- AhtiK 9y ago
  My trouble with multiple IDEs approach is that most of the projects involve multiple languages and for me it doesn't make sense to start up PyCharm for Python and IDEA for Java. Would feel awkward to keep two IDEs configured to work in sync (both settings, shared code folders) and handle unnecessary RAM and CPU use. Regarding general workflow, I would also have to make some a mental decision if .txt, .md, .sql, .js belong to my IDEA or PyCharm IDE. So, unfortunately, for my case, everything goes through IDEA, regardless of having a separate IDEs with more extensive support for Python, Ruby etc :(