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The JetBrains Blog
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The JetBrains Blog is the company blog at blog.jetbrains.com, writing about programming. Since 2011, 905 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,772 times, most often “JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link JetBrains' blog as a source for IDE features, editor performance work, licensing and product announcements, and occasional how-tos. One commenter suggests its CLI HTTP client post as an example to follow.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Described as an easy example to follow for running HTTP client requests from the command line.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus18 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2022-03-11
- Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2022-12-06
- Access Your IDE Remotely with JetBrains Projector9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-03-12
- Fleet Below Deck, Architecture Overview9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-01-27
- JetBrains AppCode being sunsetted7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-12-14
- The New Life of PHP – The PHP Foundation6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-22
- WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-10-24
- /idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-latency-typing-in-intellij-idea-15-eap/6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-03-23
- Take Part in the New UI Preview for Your JetBrains IDE6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-05-23
- Language Server Protocol for Plugin Developers5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-07-08
What Hacker News says?
Reposting links I added in another reply. Yes they announced the bricking plans ( http://bytecrafter.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-jetbrains-lost-y... ) and then backtracked ( https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-t... ) - which is why I said "attempted".
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-the-jetbrains-toolbox-announcement/
on “Sublime Text 3.0”Submitted Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains as a story · 718 points
HN discussion> They never attempted that Oh, but they did[1]. You might have missed the initial drama as it transpired because of their quick U-turn (to their credit). I have reason to doubt the subscription plans they published which clearly stated that failure to keep up with the subscription would lead to bricked IDEs. JetBrains only backtracked[2] after receiving sustained pushback. There were HN posts for the initial bricki…
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-the-jetbrains-toolbox-announcement/
on “Sublime Text 3.0”Submitted CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use as a story · 624 points
HN discussionI did something similar as well. But instead curling from files I've been using http-files. Depending on which project I'm working on (and customer), I'll be using different tools to run em. But to show you an easy example to follow, you could check out this jetbrains cli tool https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/12/http-client-cli-run-...
Comment linking /idea/2022/12/http-client-cli-run-requests-and-tests-on-ci/
on “Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)”Submitted In Memory of Stiver as a story · 470 points
HN discussionI will switch to this if it is as good as Sublime Text, but with a more open API. Sublime Text's API is too restricted, and there's a ton of things I want in Sublime Text that IDEs have.. but I don't want a full-blown IDE. Take the overall diff bar of most IDEs for example (Jetbrains, Netbeans, etc.). I want that in Sublime/Atom. There is a plug-in for Sublime to show diffs per line, but no way to manipulate the min…
Comment linking /pycharm/files/2013/12/2.png
on “Atom”Submitted Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes as a story · 407 points
HN discussionThese are Ghostty GUI release notes, but I want to take a moment to highlight the libghostty progress we've made since Ghostty 1.3. As a reminder, libghostty is the highly portable, embeddable library that provides core terminal emulation, render state, and more. I always felt that a free, high qualty, lightweight, reusable terminal emulation core would benefit the developer world more than any single GUI applicatio…
Comment linking /platform/2026/10/jetbrains-terminal-now-uses-ghostty/
on “Ghostty 1.4”Submitted Project Rider – A C# IDE as a story · 404 points
HN discussionThis is one that I admit is fairly subjective, and I apologize in advance if this is not scientific enough, but: it just feels right . I think they optimized the way code drawing is done in such a way that it just happens with the least amount of time possible between typing and drawing. The end result is the same as if you typed anywhere else, but because the response is cut by, say, 16ms, it just feels fast. I rem…
Comment linking /idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-latency-typing-in-intellij-idea-15-eap/
on “Visual Studio Code is now open source”Submitted Kotlin 1.0 Released: Pragmatic Language for JVM and Android as a story · 379 points
HN discussionDoesn't surprise me. I switched from TextMate to WebStorm 10 years ago. It was like I suddenly had a superpower. I don't code as much nowadays but I still live in DataGrip to do product analytics. I talked to the JetBrains team recently about how I used their to build open source software, and how we use their tools to build America's newest stock exchange at LTSE. https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2020/12/intervi…
Comment linking /webstorm/2020/12/interview-with-ray-shan/
on “Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help”Submitted JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program as a story · 352 points
HN discussionIn addition to what michaf mentioned, what we have now is not what they originally proposed. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-t... - the perpetual license fallback did not exist under the original proposals and only happened due to backlash.
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-the-jetbrains-toolbox-announcement/
on “JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised”Submitted JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced as a story · 286 points
HN discussionIndeed! Love the spirit, work your way bottom-up as you encounter problems, remain practical yet keep that 10,000 ft view. All compounded by splendid execution, to the point that you are elevated 'upstream' so to speak by the master[1]. [1]: parent is talking about Kotlin: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language) while I'm referring to Google supporting Kotlin on Android as a first-class ("nativ…
Comment linking /kotlin/2017/05/kotlin-on-android-now-official/
on “JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised”Submitted A Picture of Java in 2020 as a story · 264 points
HN discussionThe sluggineshness you describe should definitely be mainly GC pauses. IDEA has done extra work on the "input handling subsystem" to the point where they are faster than most anything out there: See: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-la... And: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-la... (which is now standard)
Comment linking /idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-latency-typing-in-intellij-idea-15-eap/
on “JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised”Submitted IntelliJ IDEA 13 is Released as a story · 256 points
HN discussionTheir license for the .NET Core debugger makes it so that only they can use it, JetBrains and others cannot, see [1], they haven't changed at all. 1 - https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nu...
Comment linking /dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nuget-unit-testing-build-debugging
on “Microsoft acquires Github”Submitted IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support as a story · 225 points
HN discussionThey're launching a new UI that's more VSCode like, way less cluttered: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new...
Comment linking /idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/
on “Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code”Submitted Kotlin 1.4 as a story · 225 points
HN discussionFurther to what others have said, JetBrains literally stopped sales and R&D in Russia after the conflict started. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
Comment linking /blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-statement-on-ukraine/
on “Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code”Submitted Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement as a story · 189 points
HN discussionI was a relatively early Tabnine user and suggested this time two years ago that people were “sleeping” on AI code completion. [1] I read about and tried evaluating Kite at the time and it seemed like it was in some kind of private invite stage. I remember thinking it must have been acquired and wasn’t taking new users. This must have been an incorrect take. I’m surprised Tabnine is not mentioned in this thread at a…
Comment linking /idea/2016/09/share-your-stats-to-improve-code-completion-via-machine-learning/
on “Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code”Submitted Kotlin 1.0.5 is here as a story · 185 points
HN discussion> in part because they were too slow distancing themselves from Russia I'd cut them some slack here. They had to get their team out of there first—with the way Putin is running things, they sure as hell couldn't announce they were leaving Russia until everyone who was going to follow them was out of there. On the day of the invasion they tweeted a statement condemning the attack, and within two weeks announced they…
Comment linking /blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-statement-on-ukraine/
on “Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code”Submitted IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8 as a story · 184 points
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