Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
by prepend on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:27AM
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IntelliJ was much faster than JBuilder. This is what I remember most, IntelliJ was as fast as using Visual Studio.
I liked JBuilder, but VisualCafe was a nightmare. But IntelliJ was much more responsive and much cheaper.
Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
by stevoski on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:59AM
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> Most notably, Borland JBuilder, which was an excellent product.
I switched from JBuilder to IntelliJ in 2002 I think.
JBuilder was good but on oh so expensive, if you wanted the full-featured version! IIRC it was 5 or 10 times the price of IntelliJ.
What blew me away when I tried IntelliJ for the first time, in comparison to JBuilder, was the refactoring tools. For the first time I felt I could safely rename classes and methods and move classes without manually searching my codebase.
You're skipping over several commercial Java IDEs available when IntelliJ first came out: Most notably, Borland JBuilder, which was an excellent product. Symantec had Visual Cafe as well, which was not really in the same league as JBuilder, but still had some magic.
IMHO, JetBrains succeeded by having a product as good as JBuilder (and revving it so it got better quickly) and not cratering as a company the way Borland did.