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The thing I love about JetBrains is their ethic. - Started by making refactoring plugins for IDEs. Became irritated by those IDEs. Wrote their own IDE. - Supp
by michaelfeathers 7y ago
The thing I love about JetBrains is their ethic.
- Started by making refactoring plugins for IDEs. Became irritated by those IDEs. Wrote their own IDE.
- Supported various programming languages. Became irritated by those languages. Made their own programming language.
- stoicShell 7y agoIndeed! Love the spirit, work your way bottom-up as you encounter problems, remain practical yet keep that 10,000 ft view. All compounded by splendid execution, to the point that you are elevated 'upstream' so to speak by the master[1]. [1]: parent is talking about Kotlin: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language) while I'm referring to Google supporting Kotlin on Android as a first-class ("native") language as of May 17, 2017: - https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/05/kotlin-on-android-now-official/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/05/kotlin-on-android-... (There might also incentive for Google to move away from anything even remotely touched by Oracle; case in point being Java, despite the open sdk for that).
- traskjd 7y agoI think you mean 'started with an RSS reader' - omea reader was ace :)