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...or a sign that JetBrains is in trouble...

That might not be the case. One of their other products ReSharper, the .NET equivalent of IntelliJ IDEA, is popular in the .NET world. Perhaps that is doing better in sales and they are shifting their attention on what has greater growth potential.

Maybe it is another sign of C# supplanting Java as the more trendy development language for your average developer?

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I've brought ReSharper everywhere I've been and it's resulted in pretty significant purchases every time. It's a truly fantastic product. I really hope that this doesn't turn out to be a bad sign.

So you are assuming that there exist a developer for which Java was trendy until recently.

And that now C# is trendy for the same developer.

Anyway, "trendy for average" is oxymoron.

I think you mean tautological.

tautology is repeating something which is obvious. oxymoron is something that doesn't make any sense.

"trendy" is something new that exceptional people to, contrary to what everybody does. "trendy for average" is wtf.

No, trendy is something people do for no reason other than everyone else is doing it. It is practically the definition of a popular programming language. Exceptional people are ahead of trends, by the time a trend is established they have moved on.

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