If Apple bought Jetbrains, they would ruin the Jetbrains products. It wouldn't go the way you're hoping.

I guess it's good thing there's a ton of word riggght after that...

but please don't let that stop you from being the 4th comment to repeat itself.

Well, I'm reacting to part of what you said.

The other part might be OK, but it's just too hard for me to imagine, I suppose. :-)

As daily user of Jetbrains’ software (and someone who agrees with TFA about xcode) I don’t want Apple anywhere near them

So as a daily user of Jetbrains software, who also finds XCode awful, you would not want XCode replaced by a Jetbrains project that isn't hacked together and reverse engineered like AppCode was?

Or you just wanted to be dramatic?

What would actually happen is that all of Toolbox would be replaced by Xcode.

No one wants that.

I'm sure Apple's Dev Tools team reads HN, and it's baffling they just don't care that the product has such a bad reputation. Or if the team cares, some layer of adjacent management clearly doesn't.

This would result in every current JetBrains user in every other language on every other platform suffer. That's a pretty big chunk of all programmers everywhere

Please tell me how

> or maybe even better, sizeable investment in them so they maintain autonomy and build a warchest to survive the current AI wave.

Somehow harms Jetbrains.

Apple would abandon other IDEs and shitify AppCode over time.

Ideally they’d do what Google did with Android Studio. Of course Apple would never openly admit that their product is inferior to that of any of their competitors..

I also agree, I would not want this to happen.