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I don't see any issue with JetBrains IDEs (and I use them, vim, VS Code and ST3/4 for different purposes).

They surely are not "getting slower each year", and I hardly see any major bugs (I use the IDE for Java, PyCharm, and used to use GoLand but don't do Go these days).

>Compounding this, I'm yet to have an interaction with Jetbrains staff that didn't leave me tearing my hair out.

Why do you need "interactions with Jetbrains staff"? I've used their IDEs for a decade or so and never had any, nor do I find any reason to have one.

In any case, if you're happier with VSCode, just use VSCode.

It's not like you have to use JetBrains.

But I don't see them going anywhere...

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I'm glad to hear there's still solid support for Jetbrains.

I prefer to use the IDEA plugins over the separate IDEs, but for reference I use:

- Android Studio (Used to be daily, now rarely)

- AppCode (Used to be daily, now rarely)

- CLion (Rarely)

- GoLand (Rarely)

- IntelliJ IDEA (Daily)

  - Docker (Rarely - daily outside IntelliJ)

  - Git (Daily)

  - Go (Rarely)

  - JS/TypeScript/Node (Daily)

  - Kotlin (Often)

  - Python (Daily at the moment - typically rarely)

  - Ruby (Often at the moment - typically daily)

- Markdown (Daily)

- Rider (Daily)

  - Perforce (Often)

  - Unity Plugin (Often)

There's lots of other non-language plugins, but I've singled out Markdown as it seems to be responsible for a lot of rendering issues. Pane goes blank, dismiss it and you're left with a white rectangle obscuring everything until you restart IntelliJ.

Also use the occasional third-party plugin (e.g. my own), but Jetbrains obviously can't be held responsible for those!

If it's at all relevant, I'm on macOS. I use most of these IDEs on Windows occasionally as well, but not enough to comment on their stability.

Probably worth clarifying, I like Jetbrains IDEs. Just less so of late.

I'm on macOS as well.

But for the apps, I only use the individual language apps (Idea + Goland + PyCharm) as opposed to IDEA + plugins.

Yeah, I opened a feature request to add a "save as..." option to the file menu, only to have it merged into a much older duplicate request. The feature still hasn't been implemented, 7ish years later.

That, plus some feature "upgrades" which wantonly degraded performance (such as changes to the "find in files" dialog) made me give up on JetBrains for serious work. I love Kotlin and use it for personal projects, and CLion is great too, but for professional work I'll stick with VSCode and make do without the refactoring capabilities and intellisense of JetBrains tools.

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