[throwaway1959]

Should we be worried about the future of JetBrains' products? I love their IDEs, especially PyCharm and CLion, but when the "woke" comes in, the competency seems to go out the door next, although it takes a few extra years. What would be the reason for doing this? Especially by the Russian team out of Prague?

[geofft]

Can you give examples of competency going out the door?

I remember a lot of anger and consternation at the Node.js "The power of a pronoun" post, for instance, but Node.js seems to have done just fine in the years since then. (There are plenty of technical criticisms of Node, of course, but it doesn't seem that Node lost competency since that post.)

I remember a lot of anger and consternation at Codes of Conduct, but they seem to be pretty much commonplace now, and not an indicator of low technical quality.

I remember a lot of anger and consternation when GitHub got rid of their meritocracy rug, but they seem to be executing and scaling just fine.

So I can't really think of a concrete reason to worry.

[ezekg]

Was it Node? I remember it being npm.