Best of JetBrains — May 2025

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   Gamefromscratch·49w

   The Best Code Editors & IDEs in 2025

   A comprehensive overview of 40+ programming tools across four categories: terminal-based editors (Emacs, Vim, Neovim, Helix), full IDEs (Visual Studio, Xcode, JetBrains suite, Eclipse), powerful text editors (Notepad++, Sublime Text, UltraEdit), and modern hybrid editors (Visual Studio Code and its many forks including Cursor, Windsurf, Zed). The guide covers both free and commercial options, highlighting their strengths, target audiences, and current development status as of 2025.

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   Article

   JetBrains·52w

   CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

   CLion, a JetBrains IDE for C and C++ development, is now available free for non-commercial use. This initiative is in line with similar changes made to other JetBrains IDEs to support learners, hobbyists, and open-source contributors. The full IDE features remain accessible under this license with the exception of the 'Code With Me' feature. Non-commercial use includes learning and hobby projects, but a commercial license is still needed for commercial projects.

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   Machine Learning News·1y

   JetBrains Open Sources Mellum: A Developer-Centric Language Model for Code-Related Tasks

   JetBrains has open-sourced Mellum, a 4-billion-parameter language model crafted for software development tasks. Optimized for programming tasks such as code autocompletion and structural understanding, Mellum supports a range of programming languages. It's released on Hugging Face with an Apache 2.0 license, encouraging community collaboration. Trained using modern infrastructure, Mellum demonstrates strong benchmark performance and aims to enhance developer productivity while promoting transparency and reusability.

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   JetBrains·1y

   Making WebStorm Faster: How We're Improving Performance Behind the Scenes

   WebStorm is actively enhancing its performance through a dedicated focus on speed, responsiveness, and reliability, addressing user concerns about lag. By utilizing a comprehensive performance test suite and the IJ-Perf monitoring tool, the team tracks and resolves performance regressions. User feedback and real-world projects are vital for ongoing improvements. Initiatives include analyzing CPU snapshots, addressing memory issues in the TypeScript service, and experimenting with a service-based type engine for better efficiency.

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