Not sure why it’s so hard for them to catch up with Cursor. They have everything they need but somehow they focus on just something that they don’t have much expertise, building models instead of better integration. It’s a shame seeing such good product going downhill considering AI is becoming fundamental for dev productivity.
Disagree, I keep trying Jetbrains once in a while and keep walking away disappointed (used to be a hardcore user). I use VS Code bc it is seamlessly polyglot. Jetbrains wants me to launch a whole separate IDE for different use cases, which is just horrible UX for me. Why would I pay hundreds for a worse UX?
you also have to install plugins in vscode
> And it's free
not relevant to my comment
I am a lifetime user of PyCharm but the reality is that Cursor is just so much more productive now. “Junie” is a decent attempt but nowhere close to Cursor yet.
At least with code completion it's pretty obvious at this point that no one needs the overpowered top-line models, and the trajectory on local LLMs is such that I don't think it's unreasonable for them to hope to avoid the big players entirely.
They don't need to beat Claude for it to work, they just need to keep their customers satisfied.
Visual Studio is still the best for C++, followed by C++ Builder.
VSCode is the only Electon app that I tolerate on my own computers.
When is InteliJ finally going to support JNI development instead of requiring two IDE licences?
One of my two major gripes about Kotlin -- that, and the lack of a standardized style guide and formatting tool so that there's no bikeshedding or difference between repos.
Of course that is no Kotlin outside InteliJ, JetBrains even has a blog post on how Kotlin is supposed to help selling more licenses.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-need...
By the way, for a little while there were some JetBrains employees doing an Eclipse plugin, but naturally they ramped out that effort.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/09/kotlin-eclipse-plu...