{"slug": "jetbrains-ides", "name": "JetBrains IDEs", "category": "editors", "category_name": "Editors and IDEs", "description": "A family of commercial IDEs from JetBrains for languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, Go and C#.", "recommenders": 20, "commenters": 35, "warners": 5, "score": 16.068, "rising": 4.07, "first": "2025-11-11", "latest": "2026-10-27", "why": "Loved for refined, reliable tooling and deep code intelligence for large refactorings, and many long-time users now pair it with external AI agents to review diffs.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 20, "neutral": 10, "compare": 0, "warn": 5}, "spark": [2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 4, 3], "listed": true, "loved": ["Refined and reliable", "Companion to agents"], "caveat": "Weak AI offerings", "short_quote": "JetBrains' IDEs can do massive refactorings and code fixes across millions of lines of code (I use them all the time)", "icon": true, "domain": "jetbrains.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["JetBrains IDEs", "JetBrains IDE"], "verdict": [{"text": "Loved for refined, reliable tooling and deep code intelligence for large refactorings,", "cites": [{"id": 799663456, "item_id": 49978966, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978966", "by": "duckiec", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JetBrains products are great ive been using them for a while", "excerpt": "Its pretty sad because JetBrains products are great ive been using them for a while and its even free for students. VSC is great but i feel like JB products are more refined since I code in Go and Python.", "context": "codes in Go and Python, student", "use_case": "coding in Go and Python", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 796101776, "item_id": 49756361, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756361", "by": "njovin", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "their IDEs are some of the most reliable software I use", "excerpt": "I've been running a latest-1 version of a few of their products on silicon Macs since M1 w/ 8GB RAM without issue. I use minimal plugins and work on medium-sized codebases and their IDEs are some of the most reliable software I use.", "context": "uses on Apple silicon Macs with 8GB RAM", "use_case": "development on medium codebases", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 752860817, "item_id": 47053801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053801", "by": "homebrewer", "date": "2026-02-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JetBrains' IDEs can do massive refactorings and code fixes across millions of lines of code (I use them all the time)", "excerpt": "Coccinelle for C, used by Linux kernel devs for decades, here's an article from 2009: https://lwn.net/Articles/315686 Also IDE tooling for C#, Java, and many other languages; JetBrains' IDEs can do massive refactorings and code fixes across millions of lines of code (I use them all the time), including automatically upgrading your code to new language features. The sibling comment is slightly \"wrong\" \u2014 they've been a", "context": "", "use_case": "large-scale refactoring and code upgrades", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using go fix to modernize Go code"}, {"id": 776418624, "item_id": 48526164, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526164", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "After using JetBrains IDEs for years I can really hardly get into anything that isn't vertically integrated.", "excerpt": "After using JetBrains IDEs for years I can really hardly get into anything that isn't vertically integrated. Language servers are THE WORST -- I love Zed but only use it for things that don't require language integration at all", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE with language integration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Codex for Open Source"}]}, {"text": " and many long-time users now pair it with external AI agents to review diffs.", "cites": [{"id": 795984801, "item_id": 49749050, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749050", "by": "eggplantemoji69", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "jetbrains ide for general file browsing + reviewing diffs", "excerpt": "I use $20 cursor plan and use the agent UI for prompts, jetbrains ide for general file browsing + reviewing diffs. This has been my sweet spot to maintain understanding while still leveraging LLM benefits.", "context": "", "use_case": "file browsing and diff review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 751040624, "item_id": 46940039, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940039", "by": "arnonejoe", "date": "2026-02-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have moved back to just using a JetBrains IDE and coping files in to Gemini so that I can limit context.", "excerpt": "Totally agree on ai assisted coding resulting in randomly changed code. Sometimes it\u2019s subtle and other times entire methods are removed. I have moved back to just using a JetBrains IDE and coping files in to Gemini so that I can limit context. Then I use the IDE to inspect changes in a git diff, regression test everything, and after all that, commit.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and reviewing diffs", "switched_from": "AI coding assistants", "story": "AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder"}, {"id": 766403200, "item_id": 47900200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900200", "by": "marek77", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever.", "excerpt": "One of the companies most disrupted by AI? Sorry, but that is nonsense. I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever. That's while being fully on the Agentic Coding bandwagon. Admittedly their attempts at integrating AI have been an abject failure, but who cares? My setup is Claude or OpenCode on one screen, Jetbrains (IDE mostly), both viewing and workin", "context": "professional user for 20+ years", "use_case": "viewing and working on codebase", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is weak, confusing AI offerings,", "cites": [{"id": 796793264, "item_id": 49799579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799579", "by": "delbronski", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years. This year I decided not to renew. It\u2019s just not worth it anymore. I don\u2019t spend as much time as i used to in an IDE. And their AI offerings are not so great. I gave Junie a solid try, but it was always too far behind the competition. I gave Air a solid try, but it was full of bugs. I wish them the best, and I hope they can find a solid product again in this n", "context": "paying customer for 10+ years, did not renew", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"}, {"id": 799695248, "item_id": 49980953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980953", "by": "jayonsoftware", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think I have been using their tools since they started.", "excerpt": "I think I have been using their tools since they started. Jetbrains could have been Cursor of IDE world, but they missed it with so many confusing AI offering", "context": "long-time user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 766403200, "item_id": 47900200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900200", "by": "marek77", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever.", "excerpt": "One of the companies most disrupted by AI? Sorry, but that is nonsense. I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever. That's while being fully on the Agentic Coding bandwagon. Admittedly their attempts at integrating AI have been an abject failure, but who cares? My setup is Claude or OpenCode on one screen, Jetbrains (IDE mostly), both viewing and workin", "context": "professional user for 20+ years", "use_case": "viewing and working on codebase", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?"}, {"id": 799669506, "item_id": 49979344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979344", "by": "hkchad", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "nothing, and I mean nothing new has come of it in that year", "excerpt": "Long time JB user here, and I mean long time. The past year I have been using claude in the JB terminal but nothing, and I mean nothing new has come of it in that year. Stuck in a tiny terminal window, opening files every so often. A couple months ago I switched back to iTerm2, full screen and use sublime to open the odd file every so often. So this makes 100% sense. They need to do a better job integrating with agen", "context": "long time JetBrains user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}]}, {"text": " followed by sluggish performance and slipping quality.", "cites": [{"id": 739291824, "item_id": 46205739, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205739", "by": "domano", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Last week i cancelled my Jetbrains sub after a decade of daily driving it. I just cant take the performance issues anymore.", "excerpt": "Last week i cancelled my Jetbrains sub after a decade of daily driving it. I just cant take the performance issues anymore. Across 5 different machines all kinds of actions would just take ages and it got worse every year. Moving to Apple Silicon made it bearable for a few months but somehow Jetbrains manages to get slow even on a M3 Max with 36GB RAM. Ive been fiddling with configs for years, i tried everything sinc", "context": "JetBrains user for a decade", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains cancels Fleet"}, {"id": 799662032, "item_id": 49978877, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978877", "by": "someperson", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue.", "excerpt": "I cancelled my JetBrains subscription a year ago when they announced price increases. The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue. I used JetBrains for almost a decade because it just worked. JetBrains Toolbox is some of the worst software I've used, it causes more problems that it solves for me. Needing to install a different IDE per language is also something I dislike about JetBrai", "context": "used for almost a decade", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 758504336, "item_id": 47406521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406521", "by": "orf", "date": "2026-03-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love their offerings", "excerpt": "Good, Jetbrains desperately need to focus. I love their offerings, but I can see their value rapidly evaporating as Claude code/agents eats their lunch. Meanwhile you can\u2019t open a project\u2019s git worktree without requiring a full and complete reindex - a complete non-starter in larger monorepos. Their shared index offering is a complete joke, and generally it just feels like the wheels are coming off their product some", "context": "", "use_case": "development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains is shutting down \"Code With Me\" in all its IDEs"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Refined and reliable", "summary": "Commenters call the IDEs refined, reliable and better than lighter alternatives.", "quotes": [{"id": 796101776, "item_id": 49756361, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756361", "by": "njovin", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "their IDEs are some of the most reliable software I use", "excerpt": "I've been running a latest-1 version of a few of their products on silicon Macs since M1 w/ 8GB RAM without issue. I use minimal plugins and work on medium-sized codebases and their IDEs are some of the most reliable software I use.", "context": "uses on Apple silicon Macs with 8GB RAM", "use_case": "development on medium codebases", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 799663456, "item_id": 49978966, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978966", "by": "duckiec", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JetBrains products are great ive been using them for a while", "excerpt": "Its pretty sad because JetBrains products are great ive been using them for a while and its even free for students. VSC is great but i feel like JB products are more refined since I code in Go and Python.", "context": "codes in Go and Python, student", "use_case": "coding in Go and Python", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799647136, "item_id": 49977946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977946", "by": "sporedro", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love their tools and am keeping my subscription for now", "excerpt": "I love their tools and am keeping my subscription for now, but would have to agree. VSCode has been eating at their users for years now. Jetbrains tools still were much better in my opinion but they are competing with \u201cfree\u201d and \u201cgood enough\u201d. With AI getting better, the main advantages of Jetbrains are gone. I don\u2019t need a massive IDE anymore. I still need an editor, but there\u2019s hundreds of better tools for quick ed", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}]}, {"label": "Companion to agents", "summary": "Users run AI agents separately and use the IDE to browse code, review diffs and expose inspections via MCP.", "quotes": [{"id": 766403200, "item_id": 47900200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900200", "by": "marek77", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever.", "excerpt": "One of the companies most disrupted by AI? Sorry, but that is nonsense. I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever. That's while being fully on the Agentic Coding bandwagon. Admittedly their attempts at integrating AI have been an abject failure, but who cares? My setup is Claude or OpenCode on one screen, Jetbrains (IDE mostly), both viewing and workin", "context": "professional user for 20+ years", "use_case": "viewing and working on codebase", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?"}, {"id": 795984801, "item_id": 49749050, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749050", "by": "eggplantemoji69", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "jetbrains ide for general file browsing + reviewing diffs", "excerpt": "I use $20 cursor plan and use the agent UI for prompts, jetbrains ide for general file browsing + reviewing diffs. This has been my sweet spot to maintain understanding while still leveraging LLM benefits.", "context": "", "use_case": "file browsing and diff review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 787785072, "item_id": 49236567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236567", "by": "cyberax", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers.", "excerpt": "Same thing. I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers. They fumbled the initial rollout with the way they gate-kept the agents behind their own subscription. I used Claude through its API pricing for a while, and the UI experience with the sidebar chat was so much better than the Claude CLI. I could see the thought stream, click on artifacts, view dif", "context": "25-year JetBrains user", "use_case": "daily IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}]}, {"label": "Long-term familiarity", "summary": "Users with decades of use say the shortcuts are ingrained and hard to give up.", "quotes": [{"id": 787785072, "item_id": 49236567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236567", "by": "cyberax", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers.", "excerpt": "Same thing. I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers. They fumbled the initial rollout with the way they gate-kept the agents behind their own subscription. I used Claude through its API pricing for a while, and the UI experience with the sidebar chat was so much better than the Claude CLI. I could see the thought stream, click on artifacts, view dif", "context": "25-year JetBrains user", "use_case": "daily IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}, {"id": 747467713, "item_id": 46716732, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716732", "by": "vanillameow", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm a diehard JetBrains user", "excerpt": "Sometimes when I use a plugin like this I get reminded just how much of a productivity nerf it is to code without an autocomplete AI. Honestly in my opinion if you write a lot of boilerplate code this is almost more useful than something like Claude Code, because it turbocharges your own train of thought rather than making you review someone else's, which may not align with your vision. This is a really good plugin. ", "context": "diehard JetBrains user", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete"}, {"id": 799695248, "item_id": 49980953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980953", "by": "jayonsoftware", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think I have been using their tools since they started.", "excerpt": "I think I have been using their tools since they started. Jetbrains could have been Cursor of IDE world, but they missed it with so many confusing AI offering", "context": "long-time user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}]}, {"label": "Code intelligence", "summary": "Integrated language tooling handles massive refactorings and structural search better than language-server editors.", "quotes": [{"id": 752860817, "item_id": 47053801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053801", "by": "homebrewer", "date": "2026-02-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JetBrains' IDEs can do massive refactorings and code fixes across millions of lines of code (I use them all the time)", "excerpt": "Coccinelle for C, used by Linux kernel devs for decades, here's an article from 2009: https://lwn.net/Articles/315686 Also IDE tooling for C#, Java, and many other languages; JetBrains' IDEs can do massive refactorings and code fixes across millions of lines of code (I use them all the time), including automatically upgrading your code to new language features. The sibling comment is slightly \"wrong\" \u2014 they've been a", "context": "", "use_case": "large-scale refactoring and code upgrades", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using go fix to modernize Go code"}, {"id": 776418624, "item_id": 48526164, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526164", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "After using JetBrains IDEs for years I can really hardly get into anything that isn't vertically integrated.", "excerpt": "After using JetBrains IDEs for years I can really hardly get into anything that isn't vertically integrated. Language servers are THE WORST -- I love Zed but only use it for things that don't require language integration at all", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE with language integration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Codex for Open Source"}, {"id": 743991889, "item_id": 46499493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499493", "by": "the__alchemist", "date": "2026-01-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Jetbrains if on a sufficiently powerful PC.", "excerpt": "Concur that it's a great VSCode replacement! Also note on the Author's observation of it using similar keybinds: You can, easily, swap the keybinds for other common editors too; this is a big deal for transitions. Also, I love how they're doing things the right way using a fast language... and it shows in the consistently low latency. It is not, IMO, a replacement for Jetbrains IDEs (PyCharm, Rustrover, for example).", "context": "uses JetBrains IDEs on powerful PCs", "use_case": "refactoring and code introspection", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched from VSCode to Zed"}]}, {"label": "Git UI", "summary": "The built-in git UI is good enough that one user wants nothing else.", "quotes": [{"id": 734209392, "item_id": 45888087, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888087", "by": "Jianghong94", "date": "2025-11-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JB's git UI is reasonably good enough that I don't want anything else.", "excerpt": "Wait, no one mentions the default JetBrains IDE git UI? I mean, I get it if you're working from another IDE/text editor that doesn't have good git UI support out of the box, but JB's git UI is reasonably good enough that I don't want anything else. Things that I use (and I like): 1. quick checkout to another branch and automatically stash and unstash your local changes; when I just need to inspect code elsewhere I fi", "context": "", "use_case": "Git UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"}]}, {"label": "Feature discovery", "summary": "A feature-usage list helped one user discover unused shortcuts and features.", "quotes": [{"id": 795795328, "item_id": 49737208, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737208", "by": "alentred", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This was excellent for feature discovery.", "excerpt": "I remember when I was using JetBrains IDE they had this feature that would list all shortcuts and IDE features and how frequently I use them. This was excellent for feature discovery. I would regularly check it out and scroll to the list of features I never used and try them. I always wanted the same for Vim, zsh, etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "feature discovery of shortcuts", "switched_from": "", "story": "Small programming tricks"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Weak AI offerings", "summary": "JetBrains' own AI tools are described as confusing, buggy or behind the competition.", "quotes": [{"id": 796793264, "item_id": 49799579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799579", "by": "delbronski", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years. This year I decided not to renew. It\u2019s just not worth it anymore. I don\u2019t spend as much time as i used to in an IDE. And their AI offerings are not so great. I gave Junie a solid try, but it was always too far behind the competition. I gave Air a solid try, but it was full of bugs. I wish them the best, and I hope they can find a solid product again in this n", "context": "paying customer for 10+ years, did not renew", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"}, {"id": 799695248, "item_id": 49980953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980953", "by": "jayonsoftware", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think I have been using their tools since they started.", "excerpt": "I think I have been using their tools since they started. Jetbrains could have been Cursor of IDE world, but they missed it with so many confusing AI offering", "context": "long-time user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799669506, "item_id": 49979344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979344", "by": "hkchad", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "nothing, and I mean nothing new has come of it in that year", "excerpt": "Long time JB user here, and I mean long time. The past year I have been using claude in the JB terminal but nothing, and I mean nothing new has come of it in that year. Stuck in a tiny terminal window, opening files every so often. A couple months ago I switched back to iTerm2, full screen and use sublime to open the odd file every so often. So this makes 100% sense. They need to do a better job integrating with agen", "context": "long time JetBrains user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}]}, {"label": "Performance", "summary": "Some users report slowness, heavy RAM needs and full reindexes on large repos.", "quotes": [{"id": 739291824, "item_id": 46205739, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205739", "by": "domano", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Last week i cancelled my Jetbrains sub after a decade of daily driving it. I just cant take the performance issues anymore.", "excerpt": "Last week i cancelled my Jetbrains sub after a decade of daily driving it. I just cant take the performance issues anymore. Across 5 different machines all kinds of actions would just take ages and it got worse every year. Moving to Apple Silicon made it bearable for a few months but somehow Jetbrains manages to get slow even on a M3 Max with 36GB RAM. Ive been fiddling with configs for years, i tried everything sinc", "context": "JetBrains user for a decade", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains cancels Fleet"}, {"id": 758504336, "item_id": 47406521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406521", "by": "orf", "date": "2026-03-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love their offerings", "excerpt": "Good, Jetbrains desperately need to focus. I love their offerings, but I can see their value rapidly evaporating as Claude code/agents eats their lunch. Meanwhile you can\u2019t open a project\u2019s git worktree without requiring a full and complete reindex - a complete non-starter in larger monorepos. Their shared index offering is a complete joke, and generally it just feels like the wheels are coming off their product some", "context": "", "use_case": "development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains is shutting down \"Code With Me\" in all its IDEs"}, {"id": 743991889, "item_id": 46499493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499493", "by": "the__alchemist", "date": "2026-01-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Jetbrains if on a sufficiently powerful PC.", "excerpt": "Concur that it's a great VSCode replacement! Also note on the Author's observation of it using similar keybinds: You can, easily, swap the keybinds for other common editors too; this is a big deal for transitions. Also, I love how they're doing things the right way using a fast language... and it shows in the consistently low latency. It is not, IMO, a replacement for Jetbrains IDEs (PyCharm, Rustrover, for example).", "context": "uses JetBrains IDEs on powerful PCs", "use_case": "refactoring and code introspection", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched from VSCode to Zed"}]}, {"label": "Declining quality", "summary": "Long-time users say quality has slipped, citing bugs and a poor Toolbox app.", "quotes": [{"id": 799662032, "item_id": 49978877, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978877", "by": "someperson", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue.", "excerpt": "I cancelled my JetBrains subscription a year ago when they announced price increases. The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue. I used JetBrains for almost a decade because it just worked. JetBrains Toolbox is some of the worst software I've used, it causes more problems that it solves for me. Needing to install a different IDE per language is also something I dislike about JetBrai", "context": "used for almost a decade", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 771039120, "item_id": 48189945, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189945", "by": "pancsta", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use JB daily and I despise their quality but they do get things right eventually", "excerpt": "TLDR an IDE is a large program, buy ram. This fellow isnt switching IDEs, just going to a tiny editor instead. I use JB daily and I despise their quality but they do get things right eventually (eg wayland). Ignore AI and remote development, use wayvnc. Open symlinked projects in a single window. Connect agents via IDE Index MCP (not the official one). Use a sidecar editor for magical autocomplete / niche LSP extensi", "context": "", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}, {"id": 804253921, "item_id": 50265870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265870", "by": "clumsysmurf", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the font selection seems buggy. It doesn't allow me to pick several fixed width fonts", "excerpt": "In 2026.2.2, I have Tools / Terminal / Reworked 2025 selected but the font selection seems buggy. It doesn't allow me to pick several fixed width fonts, including the one I use in the main editor, and there are no weight settings. Ghostty didn't have issues with the same font, not sure what the problem is.", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains IDEs are now powered by libghostty"}]}, {"label": "Pricing", "summary": "Some dislike the subscription pricing and recent price increases.", "quotes": [{"id": 799662032, "item_id": 49978877, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978877", "by": "someperson", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue.", "excerpt": "I cancelled my JetBrains subscription a year ago when they announced price increases. The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue. I used JetBrains for almost a decade because it just worked. JetBrains Toolbox is some of the worst software I've used, it causes more problems that it solves for me. Needing to install a different IDE per language is also something I dislike about JetBrai", "context": "used for almost a decade", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 743074818, "item_id": 46442176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442176", "by": "gethly", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i hate the company and their pricing model but I like the tool", "excerpt": "bitbucket for git hosting trello for ideas and tasks jetbrains ide(i hate the company and their pricing model but I like the tool) filezilla for sftp 1remote for multi-window ssh keepass for secrets Go for programming Quasar for web front-end git bash for windows shell heidisql for db ui notepad++/vs codium/zed for simple editing", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?"}, {"id": 734393312, "item_id": 45899582, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899582", "by": "NoboruWataya", "date": "2025-11-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The JetBrains IDEs are good enough that I would consider paying for them", "excerpt": "Personally, being somewhat technically inclined I find there is rarely much of a reason to pay for the ongoing use of software. The large majority of software I use is open source and self-hostable. The JetBrains IDEs are good enough that I would consider paying for them, if programming was my livelihood (and I didn't have an employer to pay for them). But programming is just a hobby for me so I'm not inclined to pay", "context": "hobby programmer", "use_case": "programming", "switched_from": "", "story": "You will own nothing and be (un)happy"}]}, {"label": "UI redesign", "summary": "One user dislikes the VSCode-like new UI and relies on the old-UI plugin.", "quotes": [{"id": 799718896, "item_id": 49982431, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982431", "by": "phreack", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm ready to jump ship if they drop it.", "excerpt": "You could tell they were adrift and visionless when they started revamping the UI to look as much as VSCode as possible. Thankfully they kept the old version so far as a plugin at least, but I'm ready to jump ship if they drop it. Now they're trying to half heartedly copy as many AI products as possible instead of going all in on their core competencies. I used to be such a fan of JetBrains...", "context": "long-time user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}]}, {"label": "Per-language IDEs", "summary": "Needing a separate IDE per language is a noted annoyance.", "quotes": [{"id": 799662032, "item_id": 49978877, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978877", "by": "someperson", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue.", "excerpt": "I cancelled my JetBrains subscription a year ago when they announced price increases. The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue. I used JetBrains for almost a decade because it just worked. JetBrains Toolbox is some of the worst software I've used, it causes more problems that it solves for me. Needing to install a different IDE per language is also something I dislike about JetBrai", "context": "used for almost a decade", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}]}], "who": [{"by": "jayonsoftware", "context": "long-time user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980953", "date": "2026-10-06"}, {"by": "duckiec", "context": "codes in Go and Python, student", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978966", "date": "2026-10-06"}, {"by": "delbronski", "context": "paying customer for 10+ years, did not renew", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799579", "date": "2026-09-22"}, {"by": "njovin", "context": "uses on Apple silicon Macs with 8GB RAM", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756361", "date": "2026-09-18"}, {"by": "robomartin", "context": "works in hardware/engineering", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484557", "date": "2026-08-28"}, {"by": "cyberax", "context": "25-year JetBrains user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236567", "date": "2026-08-09"}, {"by": "mhaberl", "context": "has full JetBrains subscription", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189152", "date": "2026-08-05"}, {"by": "marek77", "context": "professional user for 20+ years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900200", "date": "2026-04-25"}, {"by": "vanillameow", "context": "diehard JetBrains user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716732", "date": "2026-01-22"}, {"by": "the__alchemist", "context": "uses JetBrains IDEs on powerful PCs", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499493", "date": "2026-01-05"}, {"by": "NoboruWataya", "context": "hobby programmer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899582", "date": "2025-11-12"}], "tags": ["for students", "for Kotlin developers", "for large refactorings", "alongside AI agents", "for Go and Python devs"], "use_cases": ["ide", "coding", "daily development", "code editing", "ide terminal", "paid software example"], "compared": [{"slug": "zed", "name": "Zed", "co": 8, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 2}, {"slug": "visual-studio-code", "name": "Visual Studio Code", "co": 10, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "cursor", "name": "Cursor", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gitkraken", "name": "GitKraken", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "sublime-text", "name": "Sublime Text", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vim", "name": "Vim", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977072", "title": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799287", "title": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185188", "title": "No More JetBrains Products for Me", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260714", "title": "JetBrains IDEs are now powered by libghostty", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167159", "title": "Ask HN: Is charging for software a thing of the past?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839664", "title": "What About Rails?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 3, "recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 3, "warn": 4, "neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804253921, "item_id": 50265870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265870", "by": "clumsysmurf", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the font selection seems buggy. It doesn't allow me to pick several fixed width fonts", "excerpt": "In 2026.2.2, I have Tools / Terminal / Reworked 2025 selected but the font selection seems buggy. It doesn't allow me to pick several fixed width fonts, including the one I use in the main editor, and there are no weight settings. Ghostty didn't have issues with the same font, not sure what the problem is.", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains IDEs are now powered by libghostty"}, {"id": 802676657, "item_id": 50167291, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167291", "by": "prologic", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "LittleSnitch, Jetbrains IDe, Plex, Final Cut Pro, etc", "excerpt": "No, not really. There's plenty of software out there that you still pay for, or pay a license for. e.g: LittleSnitch, Jetbrains IDe, Plex, Final Cut Pro, etc", "context": "", "use_case": "paid software example", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is charging for software a thing of the past?"}, {"id": 799718896, "item_id": 49982431, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982431", "by": "phreack", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm ready to jump ship if they drop it.", "excerpt": "You could tell they were adrift and visionless when they started revamping the UI to look as much as VSCode as possible. Thankfully they kept the old version so far as a plugin at least, but I'm ready to jump ship if they drop it. Now they're trying to half heartedly copy as many AI products as possible instead of going all in on their core competencies. I used to be such a fan of JetBrains...", "context": "long-time user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799695248, "item_id": 49980953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980953", "by": "jayonsoftware", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think I have been using their tools since they started.", "excerpt": "I think I have been using their tools since they started. Jetbrains could have been Cursor of IDE world, but they missed it with so many confusing AI offering", "context": "long-time user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799669506, "item_id": 49979344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979344", "by": "hkchad", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "nothing, and I mean nothing new has come of it in that year", "excerpt": "Long time JB user here, and I mean long time. The past year I have been using claude in the JB terminal but nothing, and I mean nothing new has come of it in that year. Stuck in a tiny terminal window, opening files every so often. A couple months ago I switched back to iTerm2, full screen and use sublime to open the odd file every so often. So this makes 100% sense. They need to do a better job integrating with agen", "context": "long time JetBrains user", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799663456, "item_id": 49978966, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978966", "by": "duckiec", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JetBrains products are great ive been using them for a while", "excerpt": "Its pretty sad because JetBrains products are great ive been using them for a while and its even free for students. VSC is great but i feel like JB products are more refined since I code in Go and Python.", "context": "codes in Go and Python, student", "use_case": "coding in Go and Python", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799662032, "item_id": 49978877, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978877", "by": "someperson", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue.", "excerpt": "I cancelled my JetBrains subscription a year ago when they announced price increases. The quality of their software has been falling despite all recurring revenue. I used JetBrains for almost a decade because it just worked. JetBrains Toolbox is some of the worst software I've used, it causes more problems that it solves for me. Needing to install a different IDE per language is also something I dislike about JetBrai", "context": "used for almost a decade", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799647136, "item_id": 49977946, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977946", "by": "sporedro", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love their tools and am keeping my subscription for now", "excerpt": "I love their tools and am keeping my subscription for now, but would have to agree. VSCode has been eating at their users for years now. Jetbrains tools still were much better in my opinion but they are competing with \u201cfree\u201d and \u201cgood enough\u201d. With AI getting better, the main advantages of Jetbrains are gone. I don\u2019t need a massive IDE anymore. I still need an editor, but there\u2019s hundreds of better tools for quick ed", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 797525956, "item_id": 49845372, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845372", "by": "flossly", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JetBrains products that work well (and have free versions for Kotlin)", "excerpt": "I moved from Ruby+Rails, though some other frameworks that I had no choice in (inherited the projects), to my new place of refuge: Kotlin+http4k. Kotlin is a very acceptable Ruby-with-types. Even better than the new Ruby with optional types. It reads the same, it writes very similar, and it produces very similar \"style\" of code. I like the be on the FP side; Kotlin (as Ruby) allows that. I dont mind some OO in there;", "context": "", "use_case": "Kotlin development", "switched_from": "", "story": "What About Rails?"}, {"id": 796846225, "item_id": 49802889, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802889", "by": "ipsod", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I still keep my JetBrains' subscription, so that agents can use the MCP.", "excerpt": "> It's about code reviews, QA, debugging, discovery, and maintenance; much more than the \"writing\" part. AI can do all of that quite well. If you take your hands off of the wheel, lean into it, start building systems for it, start figuring out where it goes wrong on your codebase and building systems to prevent that... you might get 10x more done. I do, and the results are generally better than anything I'd have code", "context": "", "use_case": "MCP access for agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"}, {"id": 796793264, "item_id": 49799579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799579", "by": "delbronski", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years. This year I decided not to renew. It\u2019s just not worth it anymore. I don\u2019t spend as much time as i used to in an IDE. And their AI offerings are not so great. I gave Junie a solid try, but it was always too far behind the competition. I gave Air a solid try, but it was full of bugs. I wish them the best, and I hope they can find a solid product again in this n", "context": "paying customer for 10+ years, did not renew", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"}, {"id": 796101776, "item_id": 49756361, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756361", "by": "njovin", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "their IDEs are some of the most reliable software I use", "excerpt": "I've been running a latest-1 version of a few of their products on silicon Macs since M1 w/ 8GB RAM without issue. I use minimal plugins and work on medium-sized codebases and their IDEs are some of the most reliable software I use.", "context": "uses on Apple silicon Macs with 8GB RAM", "use_case": "development on medium codebases", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 795984801, "item_id": 49749050, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749050", "by": "eggplantemoji69", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "jetbrains ide for general file browsing + reviewing diffs", "excerpt": "I use $20 cursor plan and use the agent UI for prompts, jetbrains ide for general file browsing + reviewing diffs. This has been my sweet spot to maintain understanding while still leveraging LLM benefits.", "context": "", "use_case": "file browsing and diff review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 795795328, "item_id": 49737208, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737208", "by": "alentred", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This was excellent for feature discovery.", "excerpt": "I remember when I was using JetBrains IDE they had this feature that would list all shortcuts and IDE features and how frequently I use them. This was excellent for feature discovery. I would regularly check it out and scroll to the list of features I never used and try them. I always wanted the same for Vim, zsh, etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "feature discovery of shortcuts", "switched_from": "", "story": "Small programming tricks"}, {"id": 791804691, "item_id": 49487793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487793", "by": "hn_throw2025", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Google Antigravity2 alongside a Jetbrains IDE", "excerpt": "I recently cancelled Cursor. The features you mention are in Antigravity IDE v1, which I am trying as I still have a Gemini subscription. No idea how long it will be around for, as Google Antigravity2 (more like Claude Code) is clearly the favoured way forward, plus the new Antigravity for VSCode Extension*, which I didn\u2019t like as much when I tried it. It offers the same accept/reject hunk workflow, but I don\u2019t know ", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 791752914, "item_id": 49484557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484557", "by": "robomartin", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We use Solidworks, Altium Designer and JetBrains tools for our work.", "excerpt": "IANAL, so I can't comment on the legal merits of any of it. From a practical/business perspective, I can see the government's position. It's very simple and it makes sense. Here's an analogy that I think is apt: We use Solidworks, Altium Designer and JetBrains tools for our work. Imagine a scenario where each of these companies has license terms that restrict their use to certain domains or types of products they --f", "context": "works in hardware/engineering", "use_case": "software development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Judge rules Trump administration\u2019s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"}, {"id": 787785072, "item_id": 49236567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236567", "by": "cyberax", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers.", "excerpt": "Same thing. I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers. They fumbled the initial rollout with the way they gate-kept the agents behind their own subscription. I used Claude through its API pricing for a while, and the UI experience with the sidebar chat was so much better than the Claude CLI. I could see the thought stream, click on artifacts, view dif", "context": "25-year JetBrains user", "use_case": "daily IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}, {"id": 787026433, "item_id": 49189152, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189152", "by": "mhaberl", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have the full jetbrains subscription and use it for some debugging etc.", "excerpt": "> massive improvement over IntelliJ for my daily workflow. Why? I used Zed for about 6 months but I lost motivation. I have the full jetbrains subscription and use it for some debugging etc. I got vim for quick edits and cli tooling for ai. I got no use case for Zed.", "context": "has full JetBrains subscription", "use_case": "debugging", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 781791859, "item_id": 48861991, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861991", "by": "exiguus", "date": "2026-07-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I even use Vim keybindings in VSCode and JetBrains IDEs", "excerpt": "I had a similar experience with macOS a few years ago. After using GNOME for over 15 years, I had to switch to a Mac for work for about two years; and I never fully adapted. Windows, on the other hand, I've never been able to take seriously; every time I use it, the interface feels completely different. The same goes for tools like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I prefer Markdown for creating presentations and document", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Good Tools Are Invisible"}, {"id": 778370785, "item_id": 48648174, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648174", "by": "cromka", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "(and also Jetbrains IDE suite)", "excerpt": "I use Go plan precisely with Opencode IDE (and also Jetbrains IDE suite), but now also have access Gemini Pro and Claude Pro. And wonder which tooling to invest my time into, especially that MCP servers also potentially come into play here, and I want at least some models/tools to handle private tasks, like handling my increasingly-complex Home Assistant setup. And I also want to start using models according to needs", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Elevated error rate across multiple models"}, {"id": 776418624, "item_id": 48526164, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526164", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "After using JetBrains IDEs for years I can really hardly get into anything that isn't vertically integrated.", "excerpt": "After using JetBrains IDEs for years I can really hardly get into anything that isn't vertically integrated. Language servers are THE WORST -- I love Zed but only use it for things that don't require language integration at all", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE with language integration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Codex for Open Source"}, {"id": 771039120, "item_id": 48189945, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189945", "by": "pancsta", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use JB daily and I despise their quality but they do get things right eventually", "excerpt": "TLDR an IDE is a large program, buy ram. This fellow isnt switching IDEs, just going to a tiny editor instead. I use JB daily and I despise their quality but they do get things right eventually (eg wayland). Ignore AI and remote development, use wayvnc. Open symlinked projects in a single window. Connect agents via IDE Index MCP (not the official one). Use a sidecar editor for magical autocomplete / niche LSP extensi", "context": "", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}, {"id": 770980417, "item_id": 48186276, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186276", "by": "Aurornis", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use JetBrains IDEs on a daily basis and it's not a problem for me", "excerpt": "> It is so remarkably slow, and I cannot begin to understand these people that are telling me that it runs fast. Granted, I tend to run older hardware Always hard to interpret these complaints when the author won't reveal what hardware they're talking about, other than that it's old. I think Zed is a great option for someone who is both highly critical of load times and has older hardware. I would not have recommende", "context": "", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}, {"id": 767196273, "item_id": 47949767, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949767", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've use JetBrains IDEs for years (been subscribed annually since 2017)", "excerpt": "Congrats to the Zed team for building the best modern editor I have ever used. I subscribe to the monthly plan just to give you guys the funding you need, even if my funding is a tiny drop in the bucket. I always wanted a feature rich alternative to Sublime Text that can run anywhere and do basically anything I need from it. I've use JetBrains IDEs for years (been subscribed annually since 2017), but since Zed I have", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed is 1.0"}, {"id": 766403200, "item_id": 47900200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900200", "by": "marek77", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever.", "excerpt": "One of the companies most disrupted by AI? Sorry, but that is nonsense. I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever. That's while being fully on the Agentic Coding bandwagon. Admittedly their attempts at integrating AI have been an abject failure, but who cares? My setup is Claude or OpenCode on one screen, Jetbrains (IDE mostly), both viewing and workin", "context": "professional user for 20+ years", "use_case": "viewing and working on codebase", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?"}, {"id": 758504336, "item_id": 47406521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406521", "by": "orf", "date": "2026-03-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love their offerings", "excerpt": "Good, Jetbrains desperately need to focus. I love their offerings, but I can see their value rapidly evaporating as Claude code/agents eats their lunch. Meanwhile you can\u2019t open a project\u2019s git worktree without requiring a full and complete reindex - a complete non-starter in larger monorepos. Their shared index offering is a complete joke, and generally it just feels like the wheels are coming off their product some", "context": "", "use_case": "development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains is shutting down \"Code With Me\" in all its IDEs"}, {"id": 752860817, "item_id": 47053801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053801", "by": "homebrewer", "date": "2026-02-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JetBrains' IDEs can do massive refactorings and code fixes across millions of lines of code (I use them all the time)", "excerpt": "Coccinelle for C, used by Linux kernel devs for decades, here's an article from 2009: https://lwn.net/Articles/315686 Also IDE tooling for C#, Java, and many other languages; JetBrains' IDEs can do massive refactorings and code fixes across millions of lines of code (I use them all the time), including automatically upgrading your code to new language features. The sibling comment is slightly \"wrong\" \u2014 they've been a", "context": "", "use_case": "large-scale refactoring and code upgrades", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using go fix to modernize Go code"}, {"id": 751040624, "item_id": 46940039, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940039", "by": "arnonejoe", "date": "2026-02-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have moved back to just using a JetBrains IDE and coping files in to Gemini so that I can limit context.", "excerpt": "Totally agree on ai assisted coding resulting in randomly changed code. Sometimes it\u2019s subtle and other times entire methods are removed. I have moved back to just using a JetBrains IDE and coping files in to Gemini so that I can limit context. Then I use the IDE to inspect changes in a git diff, regression test everything, and after all that, commit.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and reviewing diffs", "switched_from": "AI coding assistants", "story": "AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder"}, {"id": 750821473, "item_id": 46926342, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926342", "by": "FpUser", "date": "2026-02-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ask IDE with AI services (I use IDEs from JetBrains) to complete it. I then do the same with tee main application. So far the results are stellar.", "excerpt": "I've never did see any value in monsters like React. Always use plain JavaScript, wrote web components and used some narrow scope 3rd party libraries. Works like a charm for me. Now instead of writing whole web components on my own I write skeletons with some comments and ask IDE with AI services (I use IDEs from JetBrains) to complete it. I then do the same with tee main application. So far the results are stellar. ", "context": "", "use_case": "AI-assisted coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Software Engineering Is Back"}, {"id": 747467713, "item_id": 46716732, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716732", "by": "vanillameow", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm a diehard JetBrains user", "excerpt": "Sometimes when I use a plugin like this I get reminded just how much of a productivity nerf it is to code without an autocomplete AI. Honestly in my opinion if you write a lot of boilerplate code this is almost more useful than something like Claude Code, because it turbocharges your own train of thought rather than making you review someone else's, which may not align with your vision. This is a really good plugin. ", "context": "diehard JetBrains user", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete"}, {"id": 743991889, "item_id": 46499493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499493", "by": "the__alchemist", "date": "2026-01-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Jetbrains if on a sufficiently powerful PC.", "excerpt": "Concur that it's a great VSCode replacement! Also note on the Author's observation of it using similar keybinds: You can, easily, swap the keybinds for other common editors too; this is a big deal for transitions. Also, I love how they're doing things the right way using a fast language... and it shows in the consistently low latency. It is not, IMO, a replacement for Jetbrains IDEs (PyCharm, Rustrover, for example).", "context": "uses JetBrains IDEs on powerful PCs", "use_case": "refactoring and code introspection", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched from VSCode to Zed"}, {"id": 743074818, "item_id": 46442176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442176", "by": "gethly", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i hate the company and their pricing model but I like the tool", "excerpt": "bitbucket for git hosting trello for ideas and tasks jetbrains ide(i hate the company and their pricing model but I like the tool) filezilla for sftp 1remote for multi-window ssh keepass for secrets Go for programming Quasar for web front-end git bash for windows shell heidisql for db ui notepad++/vs codium/zed for simple editing", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?"}, {"id": 739291824, "item_id": 46205739, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205739", "by": "domano", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Last week i cancelled my Jetbrains sub after a decade of daily driving it. I just cant take the performance issues anymore.", "excerpt": "Last week i cancelled my Jetbrains sub after a decade of daily driving it. I just cant take the performance issues anymore. Across 5 different machines all kinds of actions would just take ages and it got worse every year. Moving to Apple Silicon made it bearable for a few months but somehow Jetbrains manages to get slow even on a M3 Max with 36GB RAM. Ive been fiddling with configs for years, i tried everything sinc", "context": "JetBrains user for a decade", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains cancels Fleet"}, {"id": 734393312, "item_id": 45899582, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899582", "by": "NoboruWataya", "date": "2025-11-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The JetBrains IDEs are good enough that I would consider paying for them", "excerpt": "Personally, being somewhat technically inclined I find there is rarely much of a reason to pay for the ongoing use of software. The large majority of software I use is open source and self-hostable. The JetBrains IDEs are good enough that I would consider paying for them, if programming was my livelihood (and I didn't have an employer to pay for them). But programming is just a hobby for me so I'm not inclined to pay", "context": "hobby programmer", "use_case": "programming", "switched_from": "", "story": "You will own nothing and be (un)happy"}, {"id": 734209392, "item_id": 45888087, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888087", "by": "Jianghong94", "date": "2025-11-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "JB's git UI is reasonably good enough that I don't want anything else.", "excerpt": "Wait, no one mentions the default JetBrains IDE git UI? I mean, I get it if you're working from another IDE/text editor that doesn't have good git UI support out of the box, but JB's git UI is reasonably good enough that I don't want anything else. Things that I use (and I like): 1. quick checkout to another branch and automatically stash and unstash your local changes; when I just need to inspect code elsewhere I fi", "context": "", "use_case": "Git UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"}]}