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0 pointsAstroBen7mo ago0 comments

In user numbers, maybe. JetBrains is far ahead in actual developer experience though

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catlover767mo ago· 2 in thread

At best, that's subjective, but it's fact that JetBrains is comically far behind when it comes to AI tooling.

They have a chance to compete fresh with Fleet, but they are not making progress on even the basic IDE there, let alone getting anywhere near Cursor when it comes to LLM integration.

AstroBenOP7mo ago

JetBrains' advantage is that they have full integration and better understanding of your code. WebStorm works better with TypeScript than even Microsoft's own creation. This all translates into AI performance

Have you actually given them a real test yet - either Junie or even the baseline chat?

9cb14c1ec07mo ago

Junie is good. Needs a few UI tweaks, but the code it generates is state of the art.

aDyslecticCrow7mo ago

I wouldn't underestimate Eclipse user statistics. That may sound insane in 2025, but I've seen a lot of heavily customized eclipse editors still kicking around for vendor specific systems, setting aside that Java is still a pretty large language in its own right.

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