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I've tried (all?) the AI stuff they published, it was awful; but I was able to easily uninstall/deactivate those features once I realized it was not helpful.

On my MBP M4 or my Linux laptop, I never get the impression that it's bloat.

Prior to using IntelliJ I had been a Eclipse user and I've never experienced even 5% of the pain I had with Eclipse since moving to IntelliJ.

When everything is going to shite, I welcome with pleasure my yearly invoice from JetBrains, thinking that, at least, there is a company pushing quality software that deserves my money.



Emacs is great for LISP-like langs.

IJ is great for JVM langs.

Sure one can cross-use the above, but that's harder.

Still great to have an IDE agnostic Kotlin LSP!




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