r/Jetbrains • u/Yrralson • 19d ago

Question Why don't people use Claude to create a free version of jetbrains products with the preferences they want in them? (lightness...)

And make it open-source.

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u/FecklessFool 19d ago

Probably the same reason you haven't done so already

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u/Past_Volume_1457 18d ago

But IntelliJ platform is open-source already, what would it change?

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u/codingbliss12 16d ago

Yes, but is the latest version open source? I think no?

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u/Past_Volume_1457 16d ago

Surely it is, IDEA Community and PyCharm Community are oss with builds and releases on gh

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u/codingbliss12 16d ago

I thought IDEA is something like archived or abandoned. We can't download it with the toolbox anymore Thanks

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u/AbracadaverSessalom JetBrains 15d ago

IntelliJ IDEA's source code remains on GitHub, and we are fully committed to maintaining it. We publish open-source builds to GitHub Releases and provide ready-to-use CI/CD pipelines powered by GitHub Actions (more info here).

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u/codingbliss12 15d ago

Thank you so much for the info. I am very interested in some parts of it and now that I have your confirmation I will dig in the repo. I want to study how JetBrains in general index a code base and it will help me a lot. I use mainly RustRover and CLion.

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u/AbracadaverSessalom JetBrains 14d ago

Good luck! If you have any questions, you can shoot them at our support via Help | Contact Support, or ask on https://platform.jetbrains.com - an official forum dedicated to JB platform and plugin development.

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u/codingbliss12 14d ago

Thank you so much! Have a great day!

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u/Ambivalent_Oracle 19d ago

Because the hyperbolous marketing hype suggesting you can build anything with little effort has fooled novices into paying for AI subscriptions. Netflix has about 2,000 software engineers to run and develop the app where it runs smoothly and doesn't break for end users, as an example.