Do you think that Junie specifically inside the context of jetbrains IDEs and tooling matches the competitors?
Junie tooling excels when you are more involved. Like, look in these two files, add this specific functionality, in this specific way. Junie is usually a lot faster and to the point. Very simple tooling , it just works for this workflow. But it breaks for the “code the whole thing for me” workflow.
I don't think they ever going to be able to re-claim large chunk of developers who are now fine with thin VSCode-like + Terminal for non-JVM languages.
Perfect example of how large corp with research capacity failed to navigate their product changes.
I haven't tried out Junie yet, but the concept seems pretty compelling to me. I want a good IDE for the language I'm using, and I'd like an AI that's well integrated and trained on delegating to it for algorithmic/deterministic transforms (e.g. IDE-driven refactorings).