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If you use their flagship offering, IntelliJ, it includes language support for Python, Javascript, and many other languages either directly or via a plugin that replaces most of the respective functionality of Webstorm, Pycharm and Rubymine. Just some niche features (like a C debugger only found in CLion) are unique to the other IDEs IIRC

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I write F# and Scala (among other various languages). Unfortunately I have to own Rider and Intellij to do all of those things in the JetBrains ecosystem :\

I too have run into this recently at work. IntelliJ for Rust, Dart, JS/TS, PHP etc but I break out Rider for C#. Would be a dream if one day these were combined so IntelliJ would be a true polygot IDE

Yeah it works but it's more fidely, for sure. Hopefully somebody sees this post and decides to fix this, for example: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po....

PyCharm doesn’t support multi-module projects which IDEA supports easily. So frankly I am unsure which is more “fidely”

Not entirely sure what you mean by "multi-module", but I can do all sorts of stuff with PyCharm.

Multiple "sources-roots", multiple-projects in the same workspace. Also, you can install pip install external libs in source development mode and debug them, etc. Short of "project imports" that I miss from Eclipse, I'm not sure what you may be referring to.

Like multi-language projects where you're working with both Java and Python code in the same source tree (actually you can include arbitrary folders from anywhere), or using multiple Python versions (and virtualenvs) in for different modules/packages in the same project.

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