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I happily pay for IntelliJ software (even though basically everything else I use is FLOSS). It is not really this feature or that feature of WebStorm that makes it worth while, but just that 40+ hours of the weeks it just works. For normal stuff, for edge cases, small projects, big repos. When I need something, it just works (with out me needing to fiddle with an agent to build me some brittle scripting that wi", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?"}, {"id": 788610049, "item_id": 49288128, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288128", "by": "theappsecguy", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Webstorm continues to be better for TS", "excerpt": "I love zed but i wish they'd focus on the IDE for those of us that still love, write and read a ton of code for serious work. 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Around 2022 I'd have agreed 100%, but t", "context": "", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "ThinkRail from JetBrains"}, {"id": 799654977, "item_id": 49978436, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978436", "by": "joshkel", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "WebStorm's code analysis kept throwing false positives on", "excerpt": "I love JetBrains. For many years I was a happy subscriber to the All Products Pack, paid for out of my own pocket. I would have said that you'd have to pry my JetBrains from my cold, dead hands. A year or two ago, I finally gave up: 1. The IDE was simply too slow - notably slower and \"heavier\" than VS Code in particular - and it seemed to regularly get slower. 2. Bugs - from the complex (TypeScript constructs that ts", "context": "works almost exclusively in TypeScript, former JetBrains All Products Pack subscriber", "use_case": "TypeScript development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 739270739, "item_id": 46204421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46204421", "by": "dsnr", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Neither PyCharm nor WebStorm alone offers what I need in one app.", "excerpt": "Too little too late. Used to be a JetBrains user and subscriber when IDEA was the best Java IDE. They lost me with the excessive product segmentation in the pursuit for profits. For example, Python is heavily used for web dev where you need to do both backend and frontend. 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I used to love Webstorm and Rider, but there were so many workflow-breaking bugs in each new release of Webstorm that I switched to VS Code. I still use Rider, but I've stopped my All Products subscription, because new releases usually decreased the amount of well-working features (and new features often didn't work at all). Around 2022 I'd have agreed 100%, but t", "context": "", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "ThinkRail from JetBrains"}, {"id": 799654977, "item_id": 49978436, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978436", "by": "joshkel", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "WebStorm's code analysis kept throwing false positives on", "excerpt": "I love JetBrains. For many years I was a happy subscriber to the All Products Pack, paid for out of my own pocket. I would have said that you'd have to pry my JetBrains from my cold, dead hands. A year or two ago, I finally gave up: 1. The IDE was simply too slow - notably slower and \"heavier\" than VS Code in particular - and it seemed to regularly get slower. 2. Bugs - from the complex (TypeScript constructs that ts", "context": "works almost exclusively in TypeScript, former JetBrains All Products Pack subscriber", "use_case": "TypeScript development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799652193, "item_id": 49978262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978262", "by": "chris_st", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Just don't need the IDE abilities like I used to...", "excerpt": "I had personal subscriptions to WebStorm and GoLand and cancelled them not long after getting Windsurf. Just don't need the IDE abilities like I used to... Still use 'go to definition' but that's pretty much it.", "context": "", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799646418, "item_id": 49977901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977901", "by": "patwolf", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "As a long-time Jetbrains subscriber it pains me to stop using it.", "excerpt": "I used to use Claude inside of a terminal within Webstorm until I realized I rarely looked at the code in the IDE. Instead I was creating draft PRs and reviewing the code in github. Now I use claude inside of herdr, and I appreciate having more screen real estate devoted to claude. As a long-time Jetbrains subscriber it pains me to stop using it. But at this point, I'm not sure what they could come up with that would", "context": "long-time JetBrains subscriber", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 796808592, "item_id": 49800537, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800537", "by": "jlkuester7", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I happily pay for IntelliJ software", "excerpt": "This. I happily pay for IntelliJ software (even though basically everything else I use is FLOSS). It is not really this feature or that feature of WebStorm that makes it worth while, but just that 40+ hours of the weeks it just works. For normal stuff, for edge cases, small projects, big repos. When I need something, it just works (with out me needing to fiddle with an agent to build me some brittle scripting that wi", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?"}, {"id": 788610049, "item_id": 49288128, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288128", "by": "theappsecguy", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Webstorm continues to be better for TS", "excerpt": "I love zed but i wish they'd focus on the IDE for those of us that still love, write and read a ton of code for serious work. Webstorm continues to be better for TS, Goland better for Go and so on; Zed lacks too much of core functionality at the moment to be the main interface of choice", "context": "", "use_case": "TypeScript development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed: Delta"}, {"id": 785726099, "item_id": 49107881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107881", "by": "DrewADesign", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pivoted to jetbrains stuff\u2014 specifically Rider, PyCharm, and WebStorm.", "excerpt": "It\u2019s a balance. It\u2019s easy to spend more time dickering with tools than you save by having those tools. I used to have this amazing neovim setup that worked exactly like I wanted it to. Unfortunately, it was fragile, and while it was theoretically infinitely flexible, practically, it was too big of a PITA to change to be flexible on the run. Then a couple of unrelated plugin changes caused some big problems with my se", "context": "", "use_case": "web IDE", "switched_from": "Neovim", "story": "The Productivity Mirage"}, {"id": 753693793, "item_id": 47105862, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105862", "by": "overgard", "date": "2026-02-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "WebStorm is better than VSCode at this, but they're both not great", "excerpt": "React is a weird beast. I've been using it for years. I think I like it? I use it for new projects too, probably somewhat as a matter of familiarity. I'm not entirely convinced it's a great way to code, though. My experience with it is that functional components always grow and end up with a lot of useEffect calls. Those useEffects make components extremely brittle and hard to reason about. Essentially it's very hard", "context": "", "use_case": "refactoring React components", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Don't Like Magic"}, {"id": 739270739, "item_id": 46204421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46204421", "by": "dsnr", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Neither PyCharm nor WebStorm alone offers what I need in one app.", "excerpt": "Too little too late. Used to be a JetBrains user and subscriber when IDEA was the best Java IDE. They lost me with the excessive product segmentation in the pursuit for profits. For example, Python is heavily used for web dev where you need to do both backend and frontend. Neither PyCharm nor WebStorm alone offers what I need in one app. VS Code with clangd is what I use now when I need to code C++.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend dev", "switched_from": "", "story": "Intellij IDEA now supports C/C++"}]}