[gentleman11]

If Russia wanted to double down on cyber attacks, kidnapping some senior dev families and forcing them to compromise JetBrains could be something they might try. I don’t even know what else to use for c++ dev, JetBrains tools are so far ahead of everyone else. Visual studio is so unpleasant to use and needs resharper to be usable

[jdmoreira]

Maybe we have been living in that situation for a while already. Not sure if you missed it but Jetbrains has been somewhat brought into accusations regarding the SolarWinds hack.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-...

and

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/07/an-update-on-sola...

[synergy20]

I use clion and have Jetbrains for years, recently two years I'm 100% with vim and decided to not continue renewing Jetbrains(including clion), and yes vim works for c++ with everything I needed(coc.nvim, ale, modern c++ plugins, gdb gui frontend debuggers,etc)

[_fat_santa]

Realistically I don't think there is a chance of that happening. Jetbrains was based out of Moscow (they are a Russian company IIRC) but now they have offices around the globe. If Russia tied doing this, JetBrains would immediately cut off access to those offices/workers and probably sound the alarm to the media on what is going on.

[gentleman11]

The Chinese government sometimes imprisons family members of people living abroad to force those abroad to do things. Why would a monster like putin shy away from that? JetBrains can’t really stop it, 1500/1900 of their staff are Russian (according to the other posts here). The founders are Russian. Many will have vulnerable family in Russia

[rafram]

Never based out of Moscow, never a Russian company. The founders are Russian but the company has always been based in Prague, although a lot of the employees work from Russia.

[sam_lowry_]

Based on relative size of Russian and Prague offices, around 1500 out of total 1900 employees worked in Russia.

[isbvhodnvemrwvn]

And core employees are Russian, with many having relocated at some point in the past; here are most of the people from this list: https://www.jetbrains.com/company/people/

- CEO is a Russian who lives in Cyprus now: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergey-dmitriev-05b581/

- Cofounder is Russian, probably lives in Russia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentin-kipyatkov-13569590/?ori...

- CEO is Russian, lives in the Netherlands: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximshafirov/

- CAO is Russian, lives in the Netherlands: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yury-belyaev-a1608b5a/

- SVP of investments is Russian, lives in Russia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaivanov/

- development lead is Russian, lives in Germany: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximmossienko/

Kotlin was named after an island in St. Petersburg archipelago. Kotlin project lead is Russian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/relizarov/

Kotlin core contributors seem to be mostly Russian: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/graphs/contributors

So it definitely isn't a decision what won't have any effect on the company.

[MrMan]

I can only use Clion for cpp, I cant deal with anything else

[pjmlp]

I never needed to slow down my computer with resharper to make VS usable.