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JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development

75 points · 123 comments · FinnLobsien

  1. giancarlostoro · · focus · HN ↗
    Is anyone using any of JetBrains AI offerings? I feel like they are burning piles of money on areas I never hear anyone talking about using. The only thing I ever used was their AI plugin, tried Junie once, but the rest just seems like noise I dont care about.
    1. the__alchemist · · focus · HN ↗
      PyCharm and RustRover. It is astonishing no other IDEs have offered direct competition. I would prefer a faster/lighter alternative to my tablet, but none exists.

      edit: Sorry; misread. No, and I am very confused by their diaspora of AI offerings!

      1. darkwi11ow · · focus · HN ↗
        Imo vscod(ium) with pyrefly LSP is miles better than Pycharm today. Never used rust rover but rust-analyser LSP also worked great for me. Interesting which features of jetbrains IDEs do sell it for you
        1. the__alchemist · · focus · HN ↗
          I don't have a good direct comparison to that, but broadly:

            - Natural treatment of multi-file projects
  - Introspection
  - Refactoring
  - Keyboard shortcuts, specific types of search etc
  - The build/run windows
          Overall, it feels like JB treats the core units as languages and multi-file projects, while others, including VsCode, treat it as text files. Whenever I try something else, I look for these features, assume I'm doing something wrong, then come to an understanding that no one else does them to the same degree. For example, Zed has no concept of moving items. I don't know if VsCode does, but whenever I try that, it seems to have only superficial ability to introspect on function calls, data structures etc.
      2. giancarlostoro · · focus · HN ↗
        The only IDE that compares in my eyes is Visual Studio, which to outsiders might seem weird, but when they support something they do a pretty good job.
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