[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.