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Because Jetbrain strategy wasn't to burn money with free tools to eventually exit with the jackpot. They have been profitable for over a decade, simply asking users to pay a fair price for great product.

Judging by all their mistakes in the last years, Russian war and AI, it’s only a matter of time until someone buys them out.

With the way they're going, I'm less and less convinced there will be much left to buy, unless it's for pennies.

I've only been a JetBrains user for five years but it's felt like it's only getting worse the whole time.

To be fair, everything is getting worse the whole time.

Atlassian? Bitbucket as a platform for agentic development.. shudder

Most likely because Jetbrains is not for sale. Google almost certainly offered to buy at some point.

Never did. I remember someone replied to my comment here that Google isn’t paying a penny to JetBrains. They’re quite happy with the relationship primarily because they don’t have to pay anything. If anything, JetBrains is the one who needs Google more than the other way around.

Meanwhile the whole world on VSCode getting ads for Azure…