15 years ago, every company had its own "BlahBlah Studio" IDE built on top of Eclipse. Now it's VSCode.

Meanwhile, JetBrains IDEs are still the best, but remain unpopular outside of Android Studio.

▲ throwaway2037 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

    > remain unpopular outside of Android Studio

What a strange claim. For enterprise Java, is there is a serious alternative in 2025? And, Rider is slowly eating the lunch of (classic) Visual Studio for C# development. I used it again recently to write an Excel XLL plug-in. I could not believe how far Rider has come in 10 years.

▲ philipwhiuk 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And IntelliJ

PyCharm’s lack of popularity surprises me. Maybe it’s not good enough at venvs

	▲	9cb14c1ec0 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, it's good at venvs. Lots of flexibility too on whether to use pip, conda, or uv.

▲ WD-42 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I just checked and I don’t even have the JVM installed on my machine. It seems like Java is dead for consumer applications. Not saying that’s why they aren’t popular but I’m sure it doesn’t help.

	▲	cyberax an hour ago \| parent [-]
		IntelliJ IDEs bundle the JVM, so you don't need to install it separately.