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Jetbrains is so good, it scares me they’ll become the next microsoft.

• mdaniel 4y ago
  In my experience, no one is forced to use JetBrains, but there are innumerable work setups that mandate Windows and thus a lot of the Microsoft tooling that implies It's also hard to distinguish from outside of that ecosystem how much Microsoft is pretending to play developer advocate in pursuit of the infamous E.E.E. strategy versus PR damage control versus they really do want to ship good dev tooling. I bring that up because if one is afraid of JetBrains morphing into Microsoft, that question brings up "what is Microsoft's motivation" in order to compare how much JetBrains would, or aims to, have those same motivations. I'm thrilled out of my mind to pay JetBrains the $whatever/year they ask of me because I unquestionably get that much value out of them. And that's not even counting the amount of benefit I get from being able to fix bugs in IJ Community and PyCharm Community due to them being Open. That leads me to believe JetBrains Browser, JetBrains Office, and JetBrains OS are likely quite a ways off because they have plenty of healthy marketshare as it is