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I am surprised Google have not acquired JetBrains by now. Android Studio being based on their IntelliJ platform and Kotlin getting first class support in Androi

I am surprised Google have not acquired JetBrains by now. Android Studio being based on their IntelliJ platform and Kotlin getting first class support in Android is investing a hell of a lot in a relatively small foreign company. Kinda strange as Google have acquired larger companies for less (less reliance not value).

realharo 9y ago
I really hope that doesn't happen.
dep_b 9y ago
If I trust any company with JetBrains it would be Microsoft. But they already have top notch products...I'm using PyCharm and Visual Studio Code side by side now and it's like VSC has like 10% of the menu options yet does everything I want it to do. Something like macOS versus Windows in terms of simplicity vs features.
CodeWriter23 9y ago
Google seems to often kill the great products they acquire.
fwgwgwgch 9y ago
Yes yes I'm breaking the HN guidelines but why has this been downvoted? All I see is a logical opinion.