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by kubav 1405 days ago
I think they lost/overgrown competition. Other IDEs started to loose development speed and newer programs like sublime, atom and vscode are not comparable (they are more like improved vim + plugins experience than heavyweight IDE).

I have switched to clion from eclipse CDT in 2018 (because of missing support for newer C++ standards) and never looked back (tried vscode but its UI is not customizable at all). Later I have subscribed for all product pack as I have projects in multiple languages (personal license is quite cheap especially with discount for long term customers).

The only think I hate about jetbrains IDEs is their licensing. It is not possible to have all features in one project:

* idea ultimate has plugins for everything except native (support is limited without debuger etc.)

* clion has plugins for native but limited plugins for everything else (pycharm community, limited JS support, no big data tools for kafka etc.)

I work on python project with some parts being C++ modules and I have to switch between IDEs for one project to have all features.