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Read moreAre JetBrains IDEs the best?
JetBrains is #24 (among the Top 100 Software Companies) in 2019.
Read moreAre JetBrains IDEs worth it?
The people at Jetbrains are quite awesome for providing a free license for us students . Text completion, refactoring, extensive plugin support are some of the pretty good features. It hasn’t been sluggish on my machine and is in fact quick to perform some tasks that might otherwise be quite time consuming.
Read moreIs JetBrains owned by Google?
I am surprised Google have not acquired JetBrains by now . Android Studio being based on their IntelliJ platform and Kotlin getting first class support in Android is investing a hell of a lot in a relatively small foreign company. Kinda strange as Google have acquired larger companies for less (less reliance not value).
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