No more JetBrains products for me
matthewkosarek.xyz
No more JetBrains products for me
1–10 of 230 posts
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#2I agree, Clion is superior in terms of features, but it loses really badly in terms of performance. I've recently switched off after being loyal to jetbrains for a long time. But this was mostly because AI negated the use of IDEs.
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#3As an eclipse fan, I may have experienced a teensy bit of schadenfreude while reading this.
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#4IDEs are dead in the age of agentic coding.
Trying to find the stable point of agentic coding is like trying to catch a falling knife. Will you still need to look at diffs? I for one no longer make any edits, as a policy - I either tell the agent to fix it, or tweak a skill or memory or doc so it doesn't make the same mistake a second time, or configure something adversarial. But does that continue indefinitely?
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#5I'm also done with JetBrains—just tried them again (RustRover) after a hiatus. It felt much slower than I remember, even after changing away from the default theme as others have suggested.
Having just made the switch to Kubuntu, I'm going to try Kate as my primary editor for a while. It's missing features, but it sure is snappy.
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#6Well, Zed is a text editor with some plugins, while JetBrains products are full-blown IDEs, with abilities Zed will never offer.
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#7Thank you for this post!
1) I've been considering Zed for a long time, but it hasn't worked well in my KVM. Due to the poor(?) ability to pass GPU through on my Ubuntu 24.04 machine. I have read that 26.04 may have fixed this so I'll try it again!
2) I am in the same boat with slowness. I've been using PHPStorm for over 10 years and it has always been "slow", but the newest pain point is that I will have claude in a terminal update a file. If the file is open in PHPstorm's viewing pain, it might take 10+ seconds to update the contents: I now always "update from disk" if I want to copy the contents outside of my KVM. It's just absolutely terrible workflow.
3. I have also found all of their AI efforts to not only be poorly executed, but executed in poor taste: it's just IN THE WAY rather than being helpful.
4. I mostly don't appreciate most of their features, generally. My flow is pretty simple. I no longer use most of the features. I just don't need the 8000lb elephant any more.
This on a 64GB ram Ryzen 7 5825U.
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#8So disappointed in jetbrains.
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#9IDEs are dead in the age of agentic coding. Trying to find the stable point of agentic coding is like trying to catch a falling knife. Will you still need to look at diffs? I for one no longer make any edits, as a policy - I either tell the agent to fix it, or tweak a skill or memory or doc so it doesn't make the same mistake a second time, or configure something adversarial. But does that continue indefinitely?
Say what?
I rather have my agents talking to my IDEs.
Re: No more JetBrains products for me
#10Just here to say that I've switched to lazyvim and have never looked back. There's something special about being able to combine tmux with resurrect and having every single project I am working on at the same time, being able to access it from any other machine via ssh and all with really low resource usage and lag. I mean I was programming yesterday with 6mbps and over 200ms of latency with hardware(typing follows host, not client) cursor over ssh, still felt like local meanwhile jetbrains couldn't keep up running in a vm over their remote gateway.