JetBrains is well thought out in terms of capabilities.
There are some core features that work so much better out of the box than with the best plugins in others.
Local History (or even for a selection) with search, stacked clipboard, recent locations, how good search is in general (text, symbols, actions etc), how in-modal buffers work, debugging experience, version control merging experience, etc etc
Old now fixed complaints:
- making plugins used to be awful
- used to have no lsp support
(Was pleasantly surprised when I built ron-lsp [1] plugin)
Long standing complaints:
- it's heavy and slow
- has weird failure modes
All that being said, still my main IDE, with neovim (well configured) used frequently.
Yep, when these new editors-wanna-be ide will focus on delivering JetBrains level debugger, global search (really global through files, actions, whatever you can imagine) then maybe I will switch.
It amazes me they all put debugging as a second class citizen. Are these people the ones who debug with printfs?
There are some core features that work so much better out of the box than with the best plugins in others.
Local History (or even for a selection) with search, stacked clipboard, recent locations, how good search is in general (text, symbols, actions etc), how in-modal buffers work, debugging experience, version control merging experience, etc etc
Old now fixed complaints:
- making plugins used to be awful
- used to have no lsp support
(Was pleasantly surprised when I built ron-lsp [1] plugin)
Long standing complaints:
- it's heavy and slow
- has weird failure modes
All that being said, still my main IDE, with neovim (well configured) used frequently.
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[1]: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/ron-lsp/tree/main/jetbrains-...