Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

With compose for desktop announced, I was wondering when a new interface would be unveiled. Looks like they are using the migration to the new stack to experiment with a lightweight alternative to vscode. I wonder if it also uses kotlin native and moves away from JVM, doesn’t seem likely since they say they are sharing code processing backend with IntelliJ.

Re: Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

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Post by dmitriid » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 9:09 AM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #2

Built from scratch ehh? I wonder what it’ll be priced at. It seems promising. DOA without vim bindings though.

> DOA without vim bindings though.

The number of users pining for Vim and Vim bindings is greatly exaggerated.

Re: Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

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Post by bennyp101 » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 9:11 AM UTC

I'm not sure what the use case is, for small tasks I have Sublime Text, for full on work, I have JetBrains. This /looks/ like a strange place between ST and VSCode

Re: Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

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Post by he_is_legend » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 9:13 AM UTC

torginus wrote: post #5

I really hope it's not Electron-based.

Unlikely. The rest of their programmers toolset are mostly java based.

Re: Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

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Post by wokwokwok » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 9:17 AM UTC

There’s a real opportunity here for JB.

If they’re prepared to give this away for free, and make money off of upselling folk on hosted remote dev envs (or licensing the server side to cloud providers) then this could actually compete with vscode.

They basically don’t have any other product that is competitive with vscode.

…but, I’m skeptical they’re willing to make the jump to freemium based on their other SAS product offerings which have… hm… not been hugely lucrative.