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This nicely shows why I like my JetBrains IDEs so much: They look at what is successful and then they don't mindlessly clone the product, but they cherry-pick t
by fxtentacle 5y ago
This nicely shows why I like my JetBrains IDEs so much: They look at what is successful and then they don't mindlessly clone the product, but they cherry-pick the core reasons why it is successful.
I have also observed that cloud coding environments (e.g. AWS Cloud9) have become more popular and I totally get why. Collaboration is easy and you can have a Linux runtime close to your production servers even though your programmers use Windows and Mac laptops. But I've always felt icky about putty my source code into some else's hands because who knows how trustworthy EC2 really is when you're working for an Amazon competitor ;) Or more generally, plenty of European companies have general rules that forbid you to put EU data onto US servers.
So I'm happy to see that JetBrains has reproduced the collaboration and Linux runtime features, while still allowing me to self-host things on a server that I fully control.
- gjvc 5y agoBut, out of the box, the interactive performance is awful, and getting worse with each version.