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They're reasoning is Compose wasn't available, surely then the next logical step was to either work on Compose or eventually port to Compose? Not, "ah well let'

• solardev 3y ago
  As a customer, I'm really excited for Jetbrains to take on experimental research projects. I love their IDEs, but they definitely have that old crusty feel, like old enterprise Windows apps and not in a good way (slow and ugly). Yeah in the short term it's not great to have two similar homegrown frameworks. In the long term though maybe it gives their apps more options to choose from, or at least different pros and cons they can try to merge together later. Either way, it's a great step forward than having to rely on Java or Oracle directly. Of course the web dev in me wishes they built a similar stack from Typescript instead (to compete with Electron and React Native) but I don't blame them for not doing that.