So much cynicism here. Many are quick to dismiss Jetbrains and anticipate the worst. Jetbrains doesn't need me to defend them, but what exactly have they done to deserve this pessimism? Changed CEOs and mentioned AI? In my view, Jetbrains has generally been supportive of developers, making good tools at a fair price while sustaining a successful business model.
I am surprised that JetBrains high-ranked people are all fellow programmers, architects etc. This is a breath of fresh air when compared to some other companies where directors and managers are MBA types.
I've been a Jetbrains customer on and off for years. In all of that time - across vast improvements in hardware - ReSharper has been slow. So slow. It doesn't seem to matter how many orders of magnitude faster are the CPUs, how many orders of magnitude increase in RAM. It just never seems to be usably fast in Visual Studio. Unfortunate that they apparently don't care about that, it would otherwise be a very good tool.
Since they explicitly mention Kotlin, I wonder how it will fare in the future with all the new Java additions. I guess at least it will remain an Android staple.
I keep wondering, that given the cozy relatioship between JetBrains and Google, when Google will finally acquire them.<p>Even the Kotlin Foundation is basically key people from those two companies.
Really disheartened they feel they need to point out "As we move towards a new era, in which AI is playing a transformative role". Fully expecting more AI "freemium" garbage to be shoveled into products where I don't want it. Again.
I believe this is the right direction - IDEs must become more intelligent. Are they already (really) intelligent - the answer may vary on your competence (it's more useful for beginners) and your expectations.<p>Even as an experienced developer who wants to learn a new framework/language, I prefer Copilot + VSCode ($10/m) as compared to a paid IDE (~ $10/m).<p>JetBrains cannot be the Nokia of IDEs and let the opportunity pass by, they need to play the game and hopefully, they will (as in the past) remain the top choice.