As daily user of Jetbrains’ software (and someone who agrees with TFA about xcode) I don’t want Apple anywhere near them
Or you just wanted to be dramatic?
No one wants that.
I'm sure Apple's Dev Tools team reads HN, and it's baffling they just don't care that the product has such a bad reputation. Or if the team cares, some layer of adjacent management clearly doesn't.
> or maybe even better, sizeable investment in them so they maintain autonomy and build a warchest to survive the current AI wave.
Just wow, like trying to talk to an LLM that poluted its context window with the wrong idea then hyperfixated on it ad infinitum, Jesus Christ.
> or maybe even better, sizeable investment in them so they maintain autonomy and build a warchest to survive the current AI wave.
Somehow harms Jetbrains.
Ideally they’d do what Google did with Android Studio. Of course Apple would never openly admit that their product is inferior to that of any of their competitors..