[endofreach]

Not great. Any other company would have been put on my greedy-morons list. But i believe JetBrains is special and is allowed more mistakes than others.

I also believe they should really stay calm and not get sucked into the AI hype. Worst case they will be the heroes to the people who like to program for the joy of it, in case these AI IDEs should really take over (which i highly doubt).

[homebrewer]

Their main target market are enterprise Java developers, whose intersection with "people who like to program for the joy of it" is close to zero.

Lately they've also been coddling with the VSCode crowd by aggressively pushing the new UI over loud objections of old loyal users.

Either one seems like direct opposite of the hacker user you're mentioning.

[misswaterfairy]

Python developers as well. PyCharm is pretty much unrivalled in my view.

[dullcrisp]

Also people who like good IDEs. But we know that real hackers use emacs.

[sadjad]

Real hackers use butterflies.