JetBrains cancels Fleet
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JetBrains cancels Fleet
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Re: JetBrains cancels Fleet
#2Fleet started as our attempt to explore a new generation of JetBrains IDEs, developed in parallel with those based on the IntelliJ Platform. Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose IDE families created confusion and diluted our focus. Rebuilding the full capabilities of IntelliJ-based IDEs inside Fleet did not create enough value, and positioning Fleet as yet another editor did not justify maintaining two overlapping product lines.
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#3> We are now building a new product focused on agentic development
This is sad. It seems innovation has all but stopped for IDEs intended for a human as the primary driver.
Re: JetBrains cancels Fleet
#4Fleet started as our attempt to explore a new generation of JetBrains IDEs, developed in parallel with those based on the IntelliJ Platform. Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose IDE families created confusion and diluted our focus. Rebuilding the full capabilities of IntelliJ-based IDEs inside Fleet did not create enough value, and positioning Fleet as yet another editor did not justify maintaining t…
Dropping Fleet is a good move. Just please for the love of God focus on your IDEs. Stop getting distracted with AI slop.
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#5Good, I tried Fleet but it was like VSCode without the extensions (as in a community, they had support for plugins or whatever but the support wasn't there) and I don't like VSCode even with extensions. It was the worst of all worlds.
Let the people that want to build an IDE from the ground up have their fun over in VSCode land, please just focus on a powerful IDE that works out of the box.
PS: Agentic development is fine to pursue but so far things like Claude Code run laps around everything JetBrains has tried. Add "mount points" for agentic flows but please just focus on making a powerful IDE. Agentic development was unable to lure me away from JetBrains, double down on that, not trying to be Cursor.
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#6If you want a fast native IDE like Fleet except better, try Zed (you can disable all AI features if you wish).
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#7Alls they need to do is make extensions much much easier to build, especially extensions that render HTML.
That's vscode's moat.
Anytime the same extension exist in both vscode and jetbrains, the jetbrains version is clunky, crash, and unstable.
I keep Jetbrains open while using vscode, for its local history/git/etc features, but how long will that be enough to keep my subscription
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#8> We are now building a new product focused on agentic development This is sad. It seems innovation has all but stopped for IDEs intended for a human as the primary driver.
It hasn't : )
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Re: JetBrains cancels Fleet
#9Good, I tried Fleet but it was like VSCode without the extensions (as in a community, they had support for plugins or whatever but the support wasn't there) and I don't like VSCode even with extensions. It was the worst of all worlds. Let the people that want to build an IDE from the ground up have their fun over in VSCode land, please just focus on a powerful IDE that works out of the box. PS: Agentic development is…
>focus on a powerful IDE that works out of the box.
Too bad everyone wants a different one of these.
Re: JetBrains cancels Fleet
#10Fleet started as our attempt to explore a new generation of JetBrains IDEs, developed in parallel with those based on the IntelliJ Platform. Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose IDE families created confusion and diluted our focus. Rebuilding the full capabilities of IntelliJ-based IDEs inside Fleet did not create enough value, and positioning Fleet as yet another editor did not justify maintaining t…
Dropping Fleet is a good move. Just please for the love of God focus on your IDEs. Stop getting distracted with AI slop.
>Stop getting distracted with AI slop
In the business cycle this is particularly risky.
You'll have a smaller base of users that don't want AI slop, but will keep using your AI anyway even if it's there.
But what you lose is the large paying corporate customers that demand 'soup de jour' that end up going to VScode or whatever, and you may never get them back.
Building software is hard, being profitable at it is even harder.