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Anyone wondering whether JetBrains IDEs are still worth it - absolute yes from me. VS code is a UX mess by comparison. Webstorm can be tricky to configure with Typescript but once it’s setup my goodness it’s good.
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Unfortunately many new developers don't believe in powerful "power" tools anymore. They like to connect many small tools for an inferior experience and they just scoff at bigger tools for being "too complicated". I use another big tool which is around 20 years old, and that can do everything and a ton more from a single screen at the same speed or faster, with greater integration. Yet people don't touch it because it…
What's the tool?
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The modern language landscape is backing away from checked exceptions. Funnily enough Kotlin eschewed them as well, converting checked to unchecked exceptions on the JVM.
The modern language landscape has not backed away from checked errors. Rust is praised for its checked errors, countless posts on this forum praise Result in multiple languages. Swift has checked errors and Kotlin is implementing them via union types in the near future. Checked errors, via results or exceptions have never been the problem. It has always been Java the language that hasn't provided the syntax sugar for…
- Unwinds the stack to a try/catch or exception handler, making exceptions practically difficult to deal with in concurrent programming.
- If unchecked, can be ignored, silently propagating during stack unwinding.
- If checked, infects the call stack with 'throws' annotations.
The second is a normal return value, with no try/catch needed, handling the error case is mandatory in order to handle the success case, and there is not a separate execution regime occurring whenever an error case is encountered.
I personally find value in having two editors. A light editor like Emacs for writing Markdown, git, quick scripts, and a JetBrains IDE for longer running projects, and debugging. I don't feel the need to wholly replace one with the other
Vim for super quick changes (I’d like to increase my proficiency with vim but not really done much to do so).
Vscode for light text editing : coding which doesn’t require me to dig in to debug for a major length of time.
Jetbrains IDE for real work / tinkering were I may need to debug / leverage breakpoints / have good autocomplete.
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You forgot to add "IMHO". IDEA has fantastic UI, it's fully configurable and 100% usable through pre-assigned hotkeys. For example, fuzzy search is available everywhere , in every tool window, in the database window, in search results, etc. The same key combination (ctrl+alt+arrow up/down on my instance) can be used to jump between search results, symbol usages, TODOs, linter results, and so on. They thought through…
I don't know, being uber configurable isn't necessarily what you want when you're not familiar with a tool and you don't know yet what you need to configure or faff with I've only recently started using JetBrains, so I'm only familiar with the new UI but I distinctly feel like I don't know what I'm missing on extra functions because I'm just not aware of it existing
Don't worry, I've been using it for 10+ years and I still feel that way every day :)
Anyone wondering whether JetBrains IDEs are still worth it - absolute yes from me. VS code is a UX mess by comparison. Webstorm can be tricky to configure with Typescript but once it’s setup my goodness it’s good.
I have moved to VScode after being a paying Jetbrains customer for 6 years. The Jetbrains IDEs are clunky and slow, they also have plenty of bugs which remain open for years. They do offer some really powerful refactoring capabilities but I don’t miss them. Most of my work is in Go, Rust and Typescript. I was told by Jetbrains representatives that Fleet is now deprioritized internally, which is a pity.
Anyone wondering whether JetBrains IDEs are still worth it - absolute yes from me. VS code is a UX mess by comparison. Webstorm can be tricky to configure with Typescript but once it’s setup my goodness it’s good.
I have moved to VScode after being a paying Jetbrains customer for 6 years. The Jetbrains IDEs are clunky and slow, they also have plenty of bugs which remain open for years. They do offer some really powerful refactoring capabilities but I don’t miss them. Most of my work is in Go, Rust and Typescript. I was told by Jetbrains representatives that Fleet is now deprioritized internally, which is a pity.
I really liked JetBrains tooling in the past, but that and then they also started hitting me with spammy advertising right after I paid for another year, and just couldn't stand it, refunded and cancelled.
Anyone wondering whether JetBrains IDEs are still worth it - absolute yes from me. VS code is a UX mess by comparison. Webstorm can be tricky to configure with Typescript but once it’s setup my goodness it’s good.
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I believe they are heavily reusing the non-UI part of Intellij and the like, so it's not really 2x the development.
Usually Intellij products are slow and fleet does not seem to be slow, so it is feels likely a lot of code was rewritten to make it fast.