[acdha]

This is as useful as saying that seat belts do not make you safer because people still die in crashes. Containers are not perfect but if you’re starting from the conventional position where you’re one wrong package install away from an attacker having arbitrary access to your account and data, they’re a significant immediate improvement and a good foundation for further improvement.

[OutOfHere]

Yes, exactly. JetBrains fanboys will prefer to remain blind to it, however, not realizing that the free version of JetBrains isn't competitive anymore against VSCode.

[simion314]

People pay for JetBrains instead of the free VS Code, and there are reasons for that, like IDE features and quality. Anyway there is no need to start an IDE war here, use whatever works for you and your coding, but I am sure that a small company can't offer free stuff and survive like big tech can do, so as a paying customer I want them to survive and make good products rather to give free shit to people that don't want to pay for their tools.

[OutOfHere]

VSCode has raised the bar of what to expect from a free IDE in terms of container integrations. JetBrains has fallen behind, and is sticking to a decade old standards.

I have no problem with the paid versions of JetBrains IDEs which I think are great, but to pay, one has to first find value in the free version (which is now lacking).