JetBrains
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
2warn against
Nov 6, 2025first mention
Oct 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Jetbrains has massively helped my developer journey and be a great tool for many many years.”
“My daily driver is JetBrains.”
developer building their own editoron “I switched from VSCode to Zed”
Caveats and dissent
“it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it”
“the JetBrains horror of pressing a key combination and then having to wait for some asynchronous UI behaviour to occur”
Often compared with
3 moved from JetBrains to Zed
1 moved from JetBrains to Visual Studio Code
2 moved from JetBrains to Neovim
1 moved from JetBrains to LazyVim
1 moved from JetBrains to Helix
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- JetBrains Thinkrail 1 mention
- The August 17 outage, and the work ahead 1 mention
- Cancelling Cursor 1 mention
- Software Is Made Between Commits 1 mention
- Ask HN: What is your dev set up like? 1 mention
- I switched from VSCode to Zed 1 mention
Data: jetbrains.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“Jetbrains has massively helped my developer journey and be a great tool for many many years.”
“it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it”
“I use vscode and jetbrains, depending on language”
“Pretty much the only reason I’m still with JetBrains.”
“I was running JetBrains suite since ~2010”
“My daily driver is JetBrains.”
“I forgot to cancel my jetbrains all products license when I switched to vs code.”
“Whenever I have to justify a subscription on JetBrains or hosting or what have you”
“the JetBrains horror of pressing a key combination and then having to wait for some asynchronous UI behaviour to occur”