17 October 2022

Jetbrains releases Fleet: a next generation IDE

JetBrains is releasing a next generation product for its flagship IDE line: Fleet.

Clearly inspired on the success of more editor-like IDE's like VScode, Fleet is a distributed developer environment where the editor can run separately from an IDE engine, which can optionally run remote.

The product has currently entered preview mode.

Having a full featured educational license, the proposed licensing seems a bit disappointing: it is largely based on the number of authors in a private project. The license limits private git projects to 4-5 committers, while our student group projects run with up to 4-5 persons. They cannot share these projects with other groups, so they need to be private.