{"slug": "jetbrains", "name": "JetBrains", "category": "editors", "category_name": "Editors and IDEs", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 9, "warners": 2, "score": 1.377, "rising": 0.67, "first": "2025-11-06", "latest": "2026-10-25", "why": "Jetbrains has massively helped my developer journey and be a great tool for many many years.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 5, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Jetbrains has massively helped my developer journey and be a great tool for many many years.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["JetBrains"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 803775552, "item_id": 50235972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235972", "by": "jwpapi", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Jetbrains has massively helped my developer journey and be a great tool for many many years.", "excerpt": "NGL Jetbrains has massively helped my developer journey and be a great tool for many many years. I don\u2019t open it that often anymore, but I see that they\u2019re trying hard to stay relevant, which is probably not easy as probably the whole market moved against you. So I\u2019m willing to give it a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "development IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Thinkrail"}, {"id": 744179648, "item_id": 46511228, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511228", "by": "gethly", "date": "2026-01-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My daily driver is JetBrains.", "excerpt": "My daily driver is JetBrains. I never liked VS Code, or rather VS Codium. I use it as text editor and only when i want to open a directory i do not care about(ie. some old or foreign code) or really need syntax highlighting. I had high hopes for Zed, despite that built-in AI crap, but after I tried it I still could not configure my syntax highlighting theme, like i can in jetbrains, and for some reason going to defin", "context": "developer building their own editor", "use_case": "daily IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched from VSCode to Zed"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 790114609, "item_id": 49382163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382163", "by": "john01dav", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it", "excerpt": "I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it. I used Jetbrains for years, but it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it. I have also used vscode and I need to use it at work, and it's fine, but I prefer Zed (fewer bugs, faster, mainly).", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"}, {"id": 733325250, "item_id": 45832828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832828", "by": "omnicognate", "date": "2025-11-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the JetBrains horror of pressing a key combination and then having to wait for some asynchronous UI behaviour to occur", "excerpt": "Re EXWM and: > Emacs is single threaded, therefore if anything in the system hangs, the whole system hangs For development work I haven't found this to be an issue. Generally when coding I use very few X apps - pretty much just a web browser and maybe occasionally a PDF preview or docs browser. I don't think I've ever had a problem with the single-threaded behaviour blocking window management there. 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I don\u2019t open it that often anymore, but I see that they\u2019re trying hard to stay relevant, which is probably not easy as probably the whole market moved against you. So I\u2019m willing to give it a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "development IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Thinkrail"}, {"id": 790114609, "item_id": 49382163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382163", "by": "john01dav", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it", "excerpt": "I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it. I used Jetbrains for years, but it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it. I have also used vscode and I need to use it at work, and it's fine, but I prefer Zed (fewer bugs, faster, mainly).", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"}, {"id": 786361105, "item_id": 49147569, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147569", "by": "lowbloodsugar", "date": "2026-08-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use vscode and jetbrains, depending on language", "excerpt": "It\u2019s probably good for Cursor to lose customers like this. The old model of SDE writing code and harness helping with tab completion is just so unproductive that it might reflect badly on Cursor. It\u2019s certainly not worth Cursors effort to keep it alive. But then I don\u2019t get why harness-in-ide is particularly useful at this point. 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Took some getting used to, sometimes I miss the GUI, debugger and some of the more advanced tools, but I generally feel a lot more productive (especially in Nix/Go) with added responsiveness, can easily work on a much bulkier machine over SSH and have a real chanc", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?"}, {"id": 744179648, "item_id": 46511228, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511228", "by": "gethly", "date": "2026-01-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My daily driver is JetBrains.", "excerpt": "My daily driver is JetBrains. I never liked VS Code, or rather VS Codium. I use it as text editor and only when i want to open a directory i do not care about(ie. some old or foreign code) or really need syntax highlighting. 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Not because of AI but it also doesn\u2019t help", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains"}, {"id": 736702240, "item_id": 46043890, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46043890", "by": "alex-moon", "date": "2025-11-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Whenever I have to justify a subscription on JetBrains or hosting or what have you", "excerpt": "It's funny, I have never thought of it this way, but, reflecting, I realise the way I do think about it is very similar. Whenever I have to justify a subscription on JetBrains or hosting or what have you, I always just ask myself: will this bring me joy? Specifically will it bring me as much joy as e.g. a Netflix subscription? Very easy to justify then. To be fair, I used to smoke cigs, and drink heavily, which are b", "context": "", "use_case": "development tools subscription", "switched_from": "", "story": "What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription"}, {"id": 733325250, "item_id": 45832828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832828", "by": "omnicognate", "date": "2025-11-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the JetBrains horror of pressing a key combination and then having to wait for some asynchronous UI behaviour to occur", "excerpt": "Re EXWM and: > Emacs is single threaded, therefore if anything in the system hangs, the whole system hangs For development work I haven't found this to be an issue. Generally when coding I use very few X apps - pretty much just a web browser and maybe occasionally a PDF preview or docs browser. I don't think I've ever had a problem with the single-threaded behaviour blocking window management there. 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