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For a brief second I thought JetBrains were rewriting their tools in Rust and we were going to get some performance improvements.
by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
For a brief second I thought JetBrains were rewriting their tools in Rust and we were going to get some performance improvements.
- rob74 2mo agoYes, I thought that too. But no, that wouldn't be realistic. Their IDEs are massive, to rewrite them in Rust they would probably also have to rewrite half of the library code in the Java ecosystem.
- norman784 2mo agoWasn’t their newer text editor/IDE written in Rust? I forgot how it was called and also didn’t followed up with their development.
- rob74 2mo agoIt was called Fleet (I almost forgot about it too) and has since been retired: https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/12/the-future-of-fleet/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/12/the-future-of-fleet... (if you wanted to be snarky, you could say that Fleet dissolved into thin Air)
- tonyedgecombe 2mo agoNo, Fleet was written in Kotlin running on the JVM. I seem to remember it used Skia for the UI.