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This article really removed some of my enthusiasm for Jetbrains products, even though I like them a lot. It's incredibly ignorant and blatantly false to anyone
by mheathr 13y ago
This article really removed some of my enthusiasm for Jetbrains products, even though I like them a lot.
It's incredibly ignorant and blatantly false to anyone knowledgeable about both.
As an example, I don't know how the author could claim that IDEAVim is comparable to the emulation either EVIL or ViEmu has, and that claim would not be so bold if IDEAVim was not a facsimile of even VI.
And using Python as an example to use in a lie is not very smart as it is one of the better supported languages in VIM for those trying to emulate an IDE's features to an extent.
It's not as though Jetbrains is trying to sell itself as a VIM replacement, that angle is nonsensical as one is an IDE and VIM's quite antagonistic to merging non-text editing features into the defaults.
Plus, lets assume the author's claims are true.
The author claims VIM is horrible, but then concludes by championing what the author just finished deriding as something PyCharm is a paragon of (VIM's design), what?
The article is incredibly distasteful and tries to sell a lie to an incredibly technical audience deft at parsing nuanced information that is much more knowledgeable about the domain than the author portrays.
There is no reason for Jetbrains to promote such base trash instead of continuing to stand on its own merits, which it has been doing well so far.
I hope Jetbrains has the integrity to at least apologize for the blatant stupidity on display in the article soon as it is horrible in all facets and very insulting.