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JetBrains is completely awesome, in all ways. - The best IDEs by far. There is nothing remotely close. I have been a dedicated Emacs user for over 30 years. Bu
by geophile 7y ago
JetBrains is completely awesome, in all ways.
- The best IDEs by far. There is nothing remotely close. I have been a dedicated Emacs user for over 30 years. But there is so much Intellij does that just isn't available in Emacs, that I started moving more of my dev work to IDE, maybe 10 years ago. I still escape to Emacs sometimes (from the IDE), but if I'm coding in Java, Python, or sometimes C/C++, JetBrains tools are my main environment.
- The products keep getting better with every release.
- Excellent support. They are always fast and address my exact problem.
- Reasonable licensing.
- The free versions of their products are usable. I got by on free versions for years.
I am thankful that they remain independent. I fear than an acquisition would dilute their focus and kill their many-years long streak of stellar accomplishment.
- extra_rice 7y agoI can't consider myself to be an emacs superuser but I've built muscle memory around its key bindings so on JetBrains IDEs, I use my custom emacs based key maps. I used to be an Eclipse user many years ago, but when IntelliJ community came out, and it started supporting emacs key maps, I made the jump. I'm now using ultimate licensed by the shop I work at.
- cies 7y agoRecently they've create the (arguably) best language on the JVM thus far: Kotlin. Now Google supports it for Android. Just to add one to that list of awesomeness.
- otachack 7y agoKotlin was a breath of fresh air from Java. Highly impressed at how easy it was to transition, as well.