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I wish they would focus on providing a better IDE experience and fixing existing bugs (and preventing releasing bugs) and keeping up with supporting their exist

I wish they would focus on providing a better IDE experience and fixing existing bugs (and preventing releasing bugs) and keeping up with supporting their existing tooling. I have difficultly determining what this company wants to deliver. I know what I actually give them money for.

mhitza 1y ago
This sentiment really resonates with me. There are a bit too many lingering bugs in their product offerings, and they are branching out instead of cutting back and improving what's already there. VSCode is eating their lunch, and they seem to have focused to compete with the things VSCode does, for a while, and now on the AI race (like all companies).
yodon 1y ago
The rate of Rider crashes on OSX skyrocketed recently, around the beginning of this year. Super disappointing and frustrating.
- geodel 1y ago
  But aren't you excited that with new higher level language you can have higher level disappointments and frustrations.
  - ethbr1 1y ago
    You're absolutely right!
john01dav 1y ago
I have noticed that the quality went down hill a few updates after they introduced llm features. My guess is that they're dogfooding their llm features and suffering consequences where llms don't think about code as well as good programmers.
rglover 1y ago
Exactly. I was testing out betas of their newer IDE (Fleet) about ~2 years ago and was really impressed. The AI stuff is really distracting people.
tnolet 1y ago
Webstorm still randomly freezes when my Macbook goes to sleep. This is only happening the last 1 year or so.
octagons 1y ago
I share this sentiment - I often get the sense that they struggle to prioritize their development efforts appropriately. It baffles me that they don’t offer a way of creating my own JetBrains IDE from the pile of features available across their IDEs and other tools. I pay for the “all products pack” and have started to question whether it’s worth it. Even if I am working in an IDE like PyCharm, it’s not much work to also work with a pre-compiled language in the same project. The distinction between the different IDEs grows less so year over year.
- wilsonnb3 1y ago
  They have plugins for IntelliJ for almost all of the languages they have an IDE for, so you can do what you are asking for if I am understanding you correctly. The only exception off the top of my head is .NET support, which isn’t available as an extension.

mhitza 1y ago

This sentiment really resonates with me. There are a bit too many lingering bugs in their product offerings, and they are branching out instead of cutting back and improving what's already there. VSCode is eating their lunch, and they seem to have focused to compete with the things VSCode does, for a while, and now on the AI race (like all companies).

yodon 1y ago

The rate of Rider crashes on OSX skyrocketed recently, around the beginning of this year. Super disappointing and frustrating.

geodel 1y ago
But aren't you excited that with new higher level language you can have higher level disappointments and frustrations.
- ethbr1 1y ago
  You're absolutely right!

john01dav 1y ago

I have noticed that the quality went down hill a few updates after they introduced llm features. My guess is that they're dogfooding their llm features and suffering consequences where llms don't think about code as well as good programmers.

rglover 1y ago

Exactly. I was testing out betas of their newer IDE (Fleet) about ~2 years ago and was really impressed. The AI stuff is really distracting people.

tnolet 1y ago

Webstorm still randomly freezes when my Macbook goes to sleep. This is only happening the last 1 year or so.

octagons 1y ago

I share this sentiment - I often get the sense that they struggle to prioritize their development efforts appropriately. It baffles me that they don’t offer a way of creating my own JetBrains IDE from the pile of features available across their IDEs and other tools. I pay for the “all products pack” and have started to question whether it’s worth it. Even if I am working in an IDE like PyCharm, it’s not much work to also work with a pre-compiled language in the same project. The distinction between the different IDEs grows less so year over year.

wilsonnb3 1y ago
They have plugins for IntelliJ for almost all of the languages they have an IDE for, so you can do what you are asking for if I am understanding you correctly. The only exception off the top of my head is .NET support, which isn’t available as an extension.