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I love Kotlin (programming.dev)
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...but I hate that you can practically only use it with IntelliJ. Trying to use it with just Gradle and vscode is such a pain and maybe even impossible to get anything more than basic syntax highlighting. That is all.

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[โ€“] bigtlb 1 points 1 year ago

Disclaimer: I don't work for JetBrains. I just admire what they have been doing. ๐Ÿ˜Š

I'm not quite sure what your frustration is.

Is your problem that you only want free and Open Source IDE?

Is your concern that you don't want your options limited to just one IDE?

  • VSCode with a few plugins can do a really serviceable job.
  • Fleet is pretty good too, but the free version will only be for non-commercial development.
  • You could even use Eclipse
    • Although, for the life of me, I don't know why anyone would choose it over IntelliJ

Personally, I really love what JetBrains has done with their IDE's. As a .NET developer, I used to live and die by Visual Studio, and it had its frustrations. That was where I first met JetBrains and the magic of ReSharper. Then, when developing for Android I felt the frustrated with Eclipse, and cheered when Android Studio became available.

When I started using both Kotlin and C# for development. I found JetBrains products so useful that I bought a personal subscription and convinced my company to get licenses for all interested developers..

We've even moved our legacy .NET development to Rider (reducing VS licenses and more than covering the cost of all the JetBrains license). Aside from a limitation on T4, templates it is much better than VS ever was (and cross platform too)!