19 engineers on Hacker News describe using JetBrains first-hand: 7 endorse it, 2 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I've been using JetBrains IDEs for over a decade but rarely open them anymore because working on several worktrees concurrently is extremely frustrating and wasteful.”
regret · personal · 10 yr · dr_faustus · 2026-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Firefox and Jetbrains for about a decade. ... its performance certainly seems to be degrading over time”
mixed · production · 10 yr · eudamoniac · 2025-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I pay for a JetBrains subscription. They're worth the money, imo.”
endorse · personal · d35007 · 2024-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are actually considering moving away from JetBrains tools for this very reason.”
regret · production · robomartin · 2024-02-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The Jetbrains editors, for example, offered more functionality out of the box than I could practically cram into my vim setup”
endorse · production · chefandy · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“JetBrains IDEs do everything I want them to do, and on my 16-core Ryzen with 64GB of RAM, they feel as fluid as touching water.”
endorse · personal · fxtentacle · 2022-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Jetbrains since college in 99 and have sold hundreds of copies by converting dev teams to it over the years.”
endorse · personal · 21 yr · nwellinghoff · 2020-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using their products for years and they did increase my productivity.”
mixed · personal · koevet · 2020-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all these IDE's allow me to be seriously productive at work. I'm definitely more productive with the JetBrains toolset.”
endorse · production · giancarlostoro · 2017-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've also switched to Jetbrains for most programming, it's much easier to find the one off commands I know I used last year”
endorse · personal · lfowles · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Jetbrains IDEs for Java, JS/HTML, and now Obj C, and through those, the tool became an extension of my person”
endorse · personal · hrabago · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“decided to cancel all IDE subscriptions (Visual Studio, JetBrains, Windsurf, etc.)”
neutral · production · zazibar · 2026-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I won't renew my JetBrains subscription that I've had since 2009. Sad.”
neutral · personal · 16 yr · exac · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Jetbrains for development, all of ours logs to Datadog, Sentry, Snowflake, and more.”
neutral · production · dukeyukey · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For me, cool editors are vscode and jetbrains. I've tried to make them my default editors many times”
neutral · personal · gtirloni · 2023-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found the JetBrains tooling for Rust to be equivalent to what is available for Go.”
neutral · production · adampwells · 2023-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the middle one for development (mostly JetBrains)”
neutral · production · kugelblitz · 2020-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the JetBrains editor flags TODO / FIXME for confirmation before commit, and will ignore TBD”
neutral · production · speleding · 2019-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In fact I have very few developer bits and bobs installed on the host (mostly just JetBrains stuff)”
neutral · personal · noir_lord · 2016-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?