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I remember reading about JetBrains in terms of profitability and capital. If I remember correctly, JetBrains has never raised any money from outside sources and
by rntksi 7y ago
I remember reading about JetBrains in terms of profitability and capital. If I remember correctly, JetBrains has never raised any money from outside sources and has become profitable very quickly.
In terms of IDE, whenever I get into unfamiliar territory, JetBrains products have always been better at onboarding me into it without having to configure much. For getting into Clojure for example, IntelliJ+Cursive was my preferred choice.
- orsenthil 7y agoThanks for the tip on IntelliJ + Cursive. Their recent effort on EduTools was impressive way to teach many programming concepts.
- dominotw 7y agocursive is third party product i think
- lemming 7y agoYes, it is - I develop Cursive and I don't work for JetBrains. That said, even though Cursive is third party, the way that IntelliJ is designed means that language extensions all tend to work in consistent ways. Rather than totally reinventing the wheel, I basically plug into standard IDE workflows for different types of extensions, and make them work for Clojure. This means that Cursive is able to feel like a JetBrains product, although sometimes less polished because I work on it on my own. It's one of the things I love most about IntelliJ, all the support for different languages basically works in the same way and it's very easy for me to pick up a new language if there's support for it.
- monsieurbanana 7y agoCan I create plugins or modify intellij itself using clojure?
- lemming 7y agoYou can, and Cursive is partially written in Clojure. I don't recommend it though, I'd definitely recommend using Kotlin.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoIt's definitely the type of company I like. They make useful products, charge reasonable money for them and make a profit.
- codysc 7y agoI agree with the sentiment entirely, but reflecting on what you wrote it's so strange that we have to call this out as a slightly novel way to do business.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoIt almost feels quaint but very comforting. I wonder if there will be a pushback against companies with lots of investor money. It seems they are all doomed to grow quickly at any cost, shady or not.
- Scarbutt 7y agoWho knows for how long, they are in tough spot (hence the 'reimagine' in the title I guess), vscode is eating their market share fast, they probably already lost the web dev market they had and, for Java/C# is just a matter of time, a few years but today is decent.
- lucidone 7y agoI used vscode as my daily driver for a long time, I find webstorm is a much better experience, particularly because vscode is so centred around javascript and non-js plugins are lacking. I work in consulting, so my tech stack changes every few months. Being able to swap from pycharm to phpstorm for example and have familiar keybindings is nice.
- ygra 7y agoI found VS Code to be quite pleasant for C# and Python as well.
- kyriakos 7y ago