Jetbrains products used to be superior. Better refactoring and speed than Eclipse or Atom. However the sale might be a consequence of the fact that free and nearly equally powerful alternatives such as VSCode are competing directly with Jetbrains products to become the developer's preferred editor.<p>With the rise of Microsoft's free Language Server [1] I'm wondering how long it takes until open source IDEs will be on par with Jetbrains.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol</a>