They also started developing Fleet several years back and made a few alpha releases, only to shutter it before it ever was ever fully released for reasons that essentially seemed to boil down to "we want to focus on our core IDEs instead, which didn't really explain what changed. I was interested in Fleet, so at this point I can't help but be skeptical of anything new they've done since then because it's not clear to me why the same logic for discontinuing Fleet couldn't apply to pretty much anything else.

Fleet was tragic. I was so excited for it but it was a perpetual WIP.

I suppose they were in a tough spot regardless though. They started developing it before the AI age, so they would have to pivot either way.

Many of the improvements and refreshed design were "backported" into the traditional IDEs.

And fleet was made to attract the VSCode generation, who they were starting to lose new user momentum to. But VSCode is no longer the biggest threat.

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