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Sometimes I just want to read code with highlighting. I want to open the project and search for some text in all the files. I don't want to wait for IntelliJ to take 30 seconds to open.
You could use grep with vim or nano for quick searches and viewing without even leaving your terminal. Why bother with a GUI at all for that use case?
The examples the author uses to make the case that Idea is getting "fatter" and "more corporate" are actually things VS Code has too: "What bothers me about JetBrains is the fact that they seem to be playing along. Judging by the talks on their recent conference, IDEA goes more elephantine, more corporate, more complex. (...) In this regard I will mention two announcements: the CodeWithMe technology and a lightweight…
My take with VS Code is that their support of development container and ssh is the best and it's a killer feature. My ultimate goal for quite sometime now was to pack all my development dependencies inside containers or cloud-init files to keep my host bare-bone and have reproducible/shareable setups anywhere anytime. Before I was an Emacs fan. I tried multiple combination of Emacs, Tramp and containers but it failed…
They just copy their init.el/vimrc to the server, Emacs/Vim users have been able to do this (coding on remote environments without all the kludges) since forever ;) and personally, I find it superior to vscoce's remote plugin since your editor and tools sit on the same machine.
For GUI editors, I agree that vscode's remote development extension is a killer feature and nothing can't match it today.
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I use both. IntelliJ being a paid personal subscription. I like both. But VsCode excels in their remote editing capabilities. Sometimes I work on code that will only compile on a Linux and I am on a Mac. It is not just remote debugging - the whole environment including language server works flawlessly via remote while making you feel like local development. It is good for two good IDEs to survive. I don’t want one of…
This right here is what could get me to switch. I could theoretically host an IDE on a workstation and develop from anywhere with a browser. Unfortunately it's not ideal yet - remote editor wouldn't let me touch files not owned by session user (even when I could sudo) and similar issues.
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It shouldn't be surprising, right? Didn't Kotlin start as a JetBrains project?
It did, and millions of Android developers use Android Studio, which is of course also part of the IntelliJ family. So I'm sure that and the (financial?) relationship with Google has also helped a crazy amount with making the whole platform better. I read somewhere that Jetbrains is valued a billion dollars these days. With zero investor funding. This is a very very serious business with smart leadership.
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A short read and should give enough examples and descriptions of the strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... Once you've killed off the competition, a lot of other things don't really matter much any more. From the money perspective, it's a well known strategy to loose money to kill off the competition. It's just about who has the deeper pockets/better stomach for it. Microsoft has t…
You're missing that the product makes no money. Thinking in terms of killing off competition is pointless when you're not referring to the strategy.
That said, giving something away can still make you money or ensure that your competition does not make money either. This comes down to being a large enough entity to support that strategy, which I personally think Microsoft still is.
If I'm Microsoft, I can give away a "base IDE", enlist volunteers and other companies that can even make a buck themselves for quite some time (and spend some money myself) to kill two birds with one stone.
1) I can bind developers to my platform. From the 2019 annual shareholders report: "Beyond GitHub, we are investing to build the most complete toolchain for developers — independent of language, framework, or cloud. Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are now the most popular code-editing tools in the world. And TypeScript is one of the fastest-growing programming languages."
2) Where I deem necessary use it to kill off competition by driving them out of business. For quite a few companies, the price point of the IDE that their developers use is important i.e. the choice that companies give their employee is: Use vscode or IntelliJ Community Edition (or something else that's free but we're not paying) and it's very hard to explain developer productivity increases to the bean counters.
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I have. IntelliJ ultimate edition still has fewer features for PHP specifically than Phpstorm. Presumably not because it actually has fewer features, but because "the debugger" now has 150 options instead of like 5. Also, these super-featured IDEs still won't support languages that Jetbrains doesn't have a specific IDE for. For instance, Delphi. Sure they'll support syntax highlighting somehow, and there might be one…
As someone who used to develop in Delphi for my day job, but has been mostly out of the loop for the last ~10 years, this really got me curious: do people actually use VSCode for Delphi ? I mean, Delphi already comes with an IDE, including a GUI ("Forms") designer - that was its killer feature back in the nineties, that you could slap together a GUI app as quickly as in good ol' Visual Basic, but backed by a compiled…
I have only one wish for JetBrains IDE - can we have one singular one with everything in it, not CLion for C++, and then Dart working on most, but Flutter only in some, or Java, or C#, etc.
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It does not for C/C++, you need CLion for that.
You can also use Resharper C/C++ in Visual Studio and Rider C++ for Unreal Engine.