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by giancarlostoro 192 days ago
With Claude Code + Zed I might be cancelling mine as well.

I thought with Kotlin they'd invest a ton of energy into Kotlin Native in order to produce fully native IDEs that can squeeze out drastically more performance, but its been over a decade of nothing happening with Kotlin that's worthwhile (despite it having had so much potential, and being a literal key language for Android ???) so I'm really kind of over JetBrains, the only thing I'll miss is DataGrip since Zed is a code editor not a DB editor. Fleet was a good idea, but poorly done, the UI was weird as hell, and it did not feel like it was as snappy as something like Zed or Sublime.
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pjmlp 185 days ago
To me it felt like they were trying to be the next Borland, with Kotlin as their Delphi, except the only reason Kotlin matters is Android.

As proven by their own survey, Kotlin is not taking over the JVM world as many assert,

https://devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com/tools-and-trends

Java 33%, Kotlin 8% as the primary programming language among all existing ones, surveys that focus only on the JVM ecosystem show even smaller percentage for Kotlin.

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