It's definitely the type of company I like. They make useful products, charge reasonable money for them and make a profit.

I agree with the sentiment entirely, but reflecting on what you wrote it's so strange that we have to call this out as a slightly novel way to do business.

It almost feels quaint but very comforting. I wonder if there will be a pushback against companies with lots of investor money. It seems they are all doomed to grow quickly at any cost, shady or not.

Another good one is Scooter Software, makers of Beyond Compare.

Beyond Compare is a great piece of software. Almost perfect.

Who knows for how long, they are in tough spot (hence the 'reimagine' in the title I guess), vscode is eating their market share fast, they probably already lost the web dev market they had and, for Java/C# is just a matter of time, a few years but today is decent.

Can only speak about technologies I work with so for PHP, JetBrains PHPStorm is probably the only decent IDE. WebStorm is also better for web development, primarily you get all the features out of the box without having to configure anything. I tried VSCode but found that I need to use plugins for everything and there are multiple plugins for the same feature, which means I have to try all of them to see what suits me. This is a time consuming process and I'd rather I use WebStorm instead :)

I used vscode as my daily driver for a long time, I find webstorm is a much better experience, particularly because vscode is so centred around javascript and non-js plugins are lacking. I work in consulting, so my tech stack changes every few months. Being able to swap from pycharm to phpstorm for example and have familiar keybindings is nice.

I found VS Code to be quite pleasant for C# and Python as well.

Wut...? Vscode is “eating” the cheapest end of the market, where they were present (with the Community editions) but not seriously competing.

They are fine. Their financials are sound and they are plenty profitable. Their real threat is Github and similar services, who try to persuade users that they don’t need an IDE at all. Hence why they’ve come up with a collab alternative that they presented with great fanfare. Imho they should just buy gitlab and integrate with it a bit better.

Thanks for the tip on IntelliJ + Cursive.

Their recent effort on EduTools was impressive way to teach many programming concepts.

cursive is third party product i think

Yes, it is - I develop Cursive and I don't work for JetBrains.

That said, even though Cursive is third party, the way that IntelliJ is designed means that language extensions all tend to work in consistent ways. Rather than totally reinventing the wheel, I basically plug into standard IDE workflows for different types of extensions, and make them work for Clojure. This means that Cursive is able to feel like a JetBrains product, although sometimes less polished because I work on it on my own.

It's one of the things I love most about IntelliJ, all the support for different languages basically works in the same way and it's very easy for me to pick up a new language if there's support for it.

Can I create plugins or modify intellij itself using clojure?

You can, and Cursive is partially written in Clojure. I don't recommend it though, I'd definitely recommend using Kotlin.