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by luciusdomitius 1561 days ago
JetBrains is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic and the leadership most probably don't approve of what is going on. Are you sure you want to cut some people off just because of where they were born to whom? This is really low, besides the alternatives for Ruby would be either Sublime or some electron-based crap - vscode, atom, etc.
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BjoernKW 1560 days ago
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Yes, technically, they're a Czech company. However, their founders as well as most of their R&D staff are currently located in Russia and hence probably paying taxes in Russia rather than the Czech Republic.

I don't know about the company's exact structure and where their profit ends up but given their rather small headquarters in Prague in contrast to their huge offices in Saint Petersburg, it's probably fair to say that a significant share of that money is invested - and taxed - in Russia.

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KptMarchewa 1560 days ago
Not anymore. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
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anta40 1560 days ago
Then should us, Android developers, abandon Kotlin and Android Studio? Both are also Jetbrain's products.

Hmm...

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BjoernKW 1560 days ago
I’m not saying you should.

Having been a happy customer and user of JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm products for years now, I’m myself still rather ambivalent on this issue.

I appreciate them having spoken out against the war, but so far they haven’t taken any active measures that put their money where their mouth is.

Unless they do so, I’ll probably cancel my license once it’s up for renewal and resign to using (inferior) products by other vendors.

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BjoernKW 1560 days ago
This is just in. Seems like my previous statement above has become obsolete:

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...

That’s what I meant by putting their money where their mouth is.

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anta40 1560 days ago
Actually, I wasn't being serious. Sorry if anyone see my statement that way.

I don't do Java for backend anymore, thus no need for IntelliJ. OK, Android Studio is based on IntelliJ too, at least it's not paid product.

I'm thinking to purchase Goland license, but most of my Go coder fellows convince me that VSCode or nvim + a bunch of plugins is more than enough.

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