JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

Post by jansan » Thu, May 01, 2025, 8:27 AM UTC

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I agree, they should focus more on quality, because there are still a ton of tiny, yet annoying issues. In Webstorm it sometimes does not recognize comments (colorizes them as code), does not reliably recognize multi line ToDos, and frequently warns me in a if (myVar == null) that myVar may not have been initialized. At least the last issue is as old as the hills, has been reported several times, and yet they seem to…

Just my two cents: For multi line ToDos, make sure the comment in the second line begins with a space.

Post by collingreen » Thu, May 01, 2025, 9:13 AM UTC

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I mean, it's hard for me to act like I really care. If I wanted to piss and moan about the topic du-jour I'd make a new account and wait 2 weeks. HN only censors you if you're too vain to abandon your 500 karma profile to start a new one up. The lapse of communication is what bothers me, and I suppose it's because the moderators know they can't justify the punishment. Preventing someone from protecting their posterit…

Post by gavinray » Thu, May 01, 2025, 9:41 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #108

buremba wrote: post #35

They have much superior product compared to VSCode in terms of pretty much everything, except AI. Not sure why it’s so hard for them to catch up with Cursor. They have everything they need but somehow they focus on just something that they don’t have much expertise, building models instead of better integration. It’s a shame seeing such good product going downhill considering AI is becoming fundamental for dev produc…

Unless I have to use them indirectly via Android Studio, I prefer to stay on Eclipse or Netbeans land for Java. Visual Studio is still the best for C++, followed by C++ Builder. VSCode is the only Electon app that I tolerate on my own computers. When is InteliJ finally going to support JNI development instead of requiring two IDE licences?

Post by freeone3000 » Thu, May 01, 2025, 10:09 AM UTC

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Even without AI winter, I don't know how you can catch up to intellij. Vscode is a hodge podge of dubious quality plugins by randos. I'm sure you can build yourself a nice IDE by being very selective, but part of what I'm paying for is the curation and cohesiveness, and I think you need a big player that is invested in building something for a large variety of use cases. I think Microsoft has their own set of tooling…

> what I'm paying for is the curation and cohesiveness Seriously. This is where Jetbrains went astray. Their original programmers I think were pretty high quality, but their product people are clearly so pants-on-head clueless that they wouldn't know a golden goose if it crushed them under metric tons of golden eggs. Good things don't power-law scale and "let's make 1000 forked IDEs and 50 really weird infrastructure…

Post by pjmlp » Thu, May 01, 2025, 10:16 AM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #116

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Unless I have to use them indirectly via Android Studio, I prefer to stay on Eclipse or Netbeans land for Java. Visual Studio is still the best for C++, followed by C++ Builder. VSCode is the only Electon app that I tolerate on my own computers. When is InteliJ finally going to support JNI development instead of requiring two IDE licences?

I prefer Java in VS Code, but unfortunately there's no solid option for Kotlin outside of IntelliJ. One of my two major gripes about Kotlin -- that, and the lack of a standardized style guide and formatting tool so that there's no bikeshedding or difference between repos.