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IDEs and developer tools for professional developers. Based on 163 Reddit mentions across 10 subreddits, JetBrains has a 45% positive sentiment score in the Developer Tools space. Reddit users most frequently discuss JetBrains in r/Jetbrains.
Sentiment Breakdown
Top Subreddits
- r/Jetbrains 34 mentions
- r/Kotlin 9 mentions
- r/IntelliJIDEA 9 mentions
- r/programming 5 mentions
- r/PHP 5 mentions
- r/phpstorm 5 mentions
- r/scala 4 mentions
- r/golang 3 mentions
- r/androiddev 3 mentions
- r/bitfieldconsulting 3 mentions
What Reddit Praises
- Introducing Tracy: The AI Observability Library for Kotlin
- The Evolution of Async Rust: From Tokio to High-Level Applications
- Building LLM-Friendly MCP Tools in RubyMine: Pagination, Filtering, and Error Design
- I spent months building an Ayu theme for JetBrains with full Islands UI support – looking for feedback
- I built a Intellij IDEA extension for Java profiling — method execution time and call count appear inline above your code
Common Complaints
- Air Launches as Public Preview – A New Wave of Dev Tooling Built on 26 Years of Experience
- Livestream: UI Freezes in JetBrains IDE Plugins and How to Avoid Them
- Jetbrains just announced Air - an “agentic development environment”
- Moving Your Codebase to Go 1
- There are some places left for the JetBrains GameDev Night at GDC 2026
What Redditors Are Saying
"(education.github.com/pack) * **JetBrains** – All IDEs free (CLion, IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc.) (jetbrains.com/student) * **Cursor Pro** – 1 year free AI code editor ($240 value) (cursor.com/students) * **Google Gemini AI Pro** – 1 year free, includes Deep Research + 2TB storage."
"JetBrains Fleet was going to be an alternative to VS Code and seemed quite promising."
"(education.github.com/pack) * **JetBrains** – All IDEs free (CLion, IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc.) (jetbrains.com/student) * **Cursor Pro** – 1 year free AI code editor ($240 value) (cursor.com/students) * **Google Gemini AI Pro** – 1 year free, includes Deep Research + 2TB storage."
"(education.github.com/pack) * **JetBrains** – All IDEs free (CLion, IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc.) (jetbrains.com/student) * **Cursor Pro** – 1 year free AI code editor ($240 value) (cursor.com/students) * **Google Gemini AI Pro** – 1 year free, includes Deep Research + 2TB storage."
"Delayed post and many won't care, but I love it and have been using it for a while. Would recommend trying"
"**tools used:** OS: Arch Linux WM: Hyprland Terminal: kitty Shell: zsh App Launcher: Rofi Notification: Swaync File Manager: Yazi Text Editor: Neovim Fetch: fastfetch Wallpaper engine: Swww Font: Jetbrains Mono NF"
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