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> JetBrains is making plenty of money ($230M in 2018 according to Wikipedia), JetBrains isn't up against a monopolist who's willing to offer the same features
by CarelessExpert 6y ago
> JetBrains is making plenty of money ($230M in 2018 according to Wikipedia),
JetBrains isn't up against a monopolist who's willing to offer the same features for free to any comers.
Also, worth noting, the now-cancelled Google deal was worth $375M to their bottom line. So even if they could hit JetBrains' numbers (which I highly doubt), it still wouldn't fill the hole left behind.
If anything, what this says to me is that Mozilla shedding staff makes sense. If JetBrains can be profitable producing a complex IDE with half the spend (Mozilla 2018 spend was $451M), it makes me wonder just how efficient Mozilla is with their staffing.