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I have been a life long JB customer. I loved JB developer tools. They released an AI assistant and it called me an ableist slur. It was very hurtful. No other AI products have that problem that I have used. This should not be released to the public. They take no responsibility, have poor communication and customer service. I refuse to be called that word ever again. They have lost my business and trust.

Save your money and pick another IDE or even just roll with a text editor. Yes, you end up with a heavy experience when you use plugins to approximate what JB IDEs offer, but they just aren't worth it anymore. I paid for 4 years for an all products pack and watched as over time their software just became slow and unwieldy.

This used to be the go to company for IDE products. I would get entire teams of 20 or more people on board with them. However, I can no longer recommend this. Even on juiced up, DDR5 machines with crazy CPU power, their IDEs are just slow and bloated. I don't know what happened at JetBrains. Some people blame the AI, but I think (note: speculate) that it has more to do with an under-resourced development team and an executive team that's more interested in maximizing ROI for themselves these days. Slow bug fixes, features that take a long time to reach EAP, only to end up being buggy when launched to production...The signs of over financialization are all there.

As a student it is the best to start out if you have the chance to use the Pro License for free. I can just recommend it and been using it for more than 5 years now with no major complaints or major crashes that where their fault. Product support is also very nice.

I’d have given it a zero score if you had such a thing. I signed up for the trial and got 36 credits on the Kineto App development site.

The app I started to build was a language learning one. The audio didn’t work. After four sets to prompts from and re writes from Jet Brain the audio still didn’t work. Pretty key since the app is
Meant to be audio learning only. So I sent it a link to a YouTube channel which does teach by audio only. It pirates the channel. Chops it up. Sends it back to me uncredited AND, you guessed it - the audio still doesn’t work.
Clearly a scam to get you sign up for a regular subscription which probably won’t have AUDIO either!

I bought a one year License for one year (AI assistance).
I hardly can use it:
80 of the 100 times:
"Request failed: Request Entity Too Large (AI Server)."

That costs me credits and this way I don't get assistance at all.

Expensive and not helpfull

Unmöglich zu benutzen. Das importieren hat so selten funktioniert, ich wollte es gar nicht mehr benutzen. Die UI und Icons waren auch nicht schön und es war im ganzen nicht sehr gut gestaltet. Ich würde es auf gar keinen Fall weiterempfehlen, es gibt so viele gute Alternativen.

I’ve been using JetBrains products for about 6 years, and in my opinion, they are excellent development tools.

With many other IDEs, you often spend a significant amount of time not only on development but also on configuration and environment setup — which can be fine in some cases.

However, with JetBrains tools, you can simply focus on your work instead of constantly configuring the environment. That’s a huge advantage for productivity.

I bought I 2 year license from them, only not to receive the code, then had an educational license applied. I've lost 6 months of subscription time and cannot speak to anyone by phone.

Their email is condescending at best and they simply do not listen nor empathise. Regardless of their software. Their attitude stinks.

War mal, die eclipseIERUNG findet längst statt, IntelliJ längst das neue Eclipse... was mittlerweile aus Sicht eines erfahrenen Entwicklers nicht mehr zumutbar ist, die haben einfach mal eben auch die CE abgeschafft, also sorry, das geht zumindest für mich nicht.

Das aller dreistete ich das diese Firma mir die 2021'er Fallback Version einfach mal so deaktiviert hat. Betrug.

Wenn die glauben Entwicklung geht ohne Jetbrains nicht, da haben die sich aber gewaltig geirrt.

Being using PyCharm Pro for free since college. Now I ran out, and I'm glad they still offer a free version. Would've been a huge paint o transfer all my stuff to a different IDE.

JetBrains is on a downwards slope in my opinion.
They used to be the go-to platform but it's becoming a pile of garbage now.
Forget major upgrades, even minor versions introduce breaking changes and bring the IDEs to a slow crawl.
The AI is a second-class citizen, the IDEs are sluggish and slow, and working on Windows with WSL integration is becoming a nightmare with these IDEs.
I'm becoming more tempted to jump ship with each new "upgrade" released by the company.

Je suis un utilisateur de la version payante de PyCharm Professional. A chaque mise à jour, cela détruit complètement mon profil, mes réglages et mes historiques. Il faut que je bidouille une heure à partir de mes sauvegardes pour remettre mon environnement tel qu'il était.
Cette fois-ci, même en tentant de remettre mes réglages à la main, cela ne fonctionne pas. Le produit ne démarre carrément plus.
J'avais déjà ouvert un ticket de support. Le problème n'a PAS été traité. Pour faire part de mon mécontentement sur un logiciel commercial payant, et considérant que le problème se produit à chaque mise à jour, j'avais demandé à ce que l'on me rembourse mon abonnement annuel. On ne m'a tout simplement jamais répondu.
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Donc, oui, le produit PyCharm est top. Mais le nouvel outil "toolbox" censé gérer les mises à jour est à lui seul une horreur absolue. Et le support n'est pas sérieux du tout. Ah, si on veut de l'AI, il y en a à toutes les sauces. Jusque dans l'outil de création de tickets de support, qui essaye de compléter les phrases à ma place. C'est insupportable. Mais pas autant que le fait que ce machin pète mon environnement à chaque mise à jour.

Their software doesn't work.

I had to use it for a class and halfway through, I switched to VS. The JUnit testing framework in particular is very clunky and difficult to configure. I would rather use a product that works, thanks.

They build in an ai tool you can query for questions about your code. I bought the ultimate version to get the most out of it. It was good until last month where they also limited the ultimate version and now you have to buy credits to do more then the threshold they put in. I think this is a very dirty money scheme. The sad part is it is legal.

I posted the below on one of their threads (search "Intellij glorified task runner") but they took it down:

The success of Jetbrains has become their curse: products are deteriorating and they don't listen anymore. The ship has become too heavy to avoid the iceberg.

Cursor disrupted the market. They started out orders of magnitude ahead, and move so rapidly that few can stop them. The AI speed is incredible yet they still bring out updates every week.

I've been with Jetbrains since their early days of Resharper. Now all that remains is a £3 monthly subscription. Webstorm is rapidly fading from my toolbox. For £20 I replaced WebStorm, JB AI, PyCharm, Datagrip and CLion.

I was patient, raised my thoughts as jetbrains issue LLM-16883.
Now, it's time to say goodbye.

they sucks they have extremely high prices

I’ve been a paying customer of JetBrains PyCharm Ultimate and always thought it was one of the best IDEs out there. The debugging tools, inspections, and overall polish are top-tier.

But the recent experience with their AI Assistant has pushed me away. Despite paying for the Ultimate plan, you’re hit with restrictive AI quotas that run out far too quickly. Once you hit the cap, you’re locked out for weeks unless you pay extra. That’s not “Ultimate,” that’s rationing.

What makes it worse is you can’t just use your own GPT or Claude subscription keys like you can in VS Code. JetBrains forces you through their pipeline and keeps you under their limits. It feels less like a productivity tool and more like an Apple-style ecosystem where they control everything.

I shouldn’t be paying for premium software and still have to worry about being cut off mid-work. Because of this, I’ve cancelled my subscription and moved back to VS Code where I can plug in my own AI keys without fear of hitting quotas.

JetBrains makes great software, but until they remove the artificial restrictions or allow users to bring their own AI keys, I can’t recommend it.

I have been using Jet Brains for many years through work but purchased my own licence for personal use.
I started using the new AI functionality, specifically Junie which originally I found to be very good. However the price has gone up by £10 per month without warning and your available quota has gone considerably down. The really annoying thing is they charge you for it wanting to run tests on your machine and it reading the success back. It never wants to run the tests all together, it will do it one at a time and charge you individually for doing so. the quota has gotten considerably smaller and they now have top up AI credits. This is just greedy. £30 a month is expensive when a handful of requests reduces your quota by 10%. The AI responses I also want to say have also got worse. Previously I always felt like it took previous interactions into account whereas now it seems to start the process all over again, probably because it can use up more of your credits this way. The service went from being the future to not worth the money very very quickly

I'm mainly using then Pycharm, DataGrip, CLion which used to work very fine, but for the moment their code completion/ intelligence / copilot or what ever is in charge of the IDE is either not working or sometimes very good.
Sometimes when editing a file it knows (guess) very nice what I want, but if switching to another and then back to the first, it is silent.
Sometimes the code completion is working and sometimes not at all which is very frustrating.

It seem like JetBrains is trying to be everywhere but is loosing the battle.

If this continues I'm forced to switch back to my former setup.

I've used JetBrains products for more than a decade. Yes, I can VSCode for free and do so for work, but it's simply not as robust as JB's IDEs. It's so much quicker to navigate a codebase and make changes across files. Plus, their support and investment in programming communities is unparalelled.