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They are trying now to create an agent-first IDE. I think they are too big to move on this.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/12/the-future-of-fleet...

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>Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose IDE families created confusion and diluted our focus.

And not the dozens of others you have? Do you not consider them also separate families?

Yeah, they completely didn’t see any of this coming.

All the other IDEs they have are variants of IDEA.

Fleet is a completely different codebase.

So they’re correct, there’s only two families of IDEs.

Isn't Fleet in preview 5 years later?

Fleet is cancelled, see the link above

Kind of figures, they were trying to compete with VS Code but they were not even able to create a stable release in all that time.

That’s a bit of an uncharitable take.

Fleet was very stable to use , it just never successfully turned into a product which they address in their link as well why that happened

It never left the preview stage, so they did not feel confident calling it stable enough for their users and I don't use preview versions for products where there are already 10 production grade competitors.

Uncharitable but yeah, reality isn't always charitable.

They just announced the end of their fleet editor

Yeah, and that they are pivoting it to an agent first editor.

https://air.dev/ provides more info, for anyone who's intrigued.

After fleet fiasco? No thanks.

I heard really good things about Zed, lol. I’m with you. I canceled my jetbrains subscription a couple years ago and I have no intention of returning. They have been superseded and are no longer a relevant company. AI has made them obsolete.

Atlassian is next…

So many salty fools who bought into “professional|enterprise grade ide” cool aid. Glad to see upstarts eating their lunch, they’ve been complacent for far too long.

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