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    1 year ago

    But JetBrains has a good track record of not enshittifying and, because you actually pay for their product

    I disagree.

    Jetbrains is going essentially the same way with kotlin. Even though it’s open source on paper, Jetbrain is gatekeeping it to a degree where they are actively blocking changes that would make it easier for LSP developers to integrate (thus potentially creating competition to their intellij products ).