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I think Visual Studio code has great influence on it but after trying it, I think VS code can also learn few things about interface from it. Really neat. Proba

by wg0 4y ago

I think Visual Studio code has great influence on it but after trying it, I think VS code can also learn few things about interface from it. Really neat. Probably JetBrains thought to leverage tons of in house Java code otherwise I think Rust + Skia or similar would have been a great option with almost no run time requirements. Rust gurus can say better but I have seen pretty impressive cross platform apps in Rust such as alacritty and warp.

cmrdporcupine 4y ago
I honestly think it would be painful to write a large GUI app like this in Rust, and it's not something I would attempt. Backend and code analytics side, sure. But like you said they have lots of in-house code written in Java. It's interesting they stuck with Java for the UI, but it does seem to be snappy and I'm glad to see them walk away from Swing.