Congratulations to them and to all Jetbrains employees. They managed to do two really hard things which most developers flirt with at some time or another. 1.

Congratulations to them and to all Jetbrains employees. They managed to do two really hard things which most developers flirt with at some time or another. 1. Create a new editor/IDE that's actually better not just different. I think everyone has had shower thoughts about making a better IDE and many have tried and failed. Jetbrains succeeded. 2. Creating a useful abstraction. IntelliJ was a great Java IDE but what's truly impressive is how they've been able to repeat the formula for almost any language out there. Everything from Go to JavaScript has a great Jetbrains IDE. They seem to have somewhat solved the general problem, which is normally a folly but in this case the key to a multibillion dollar company. So again, congratulations!