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📣 sarahdellysse

Updates on Jetbrains Fleet?


It's been like half a year since it was first announced in closed beta; I never got an invite to the beta, and on occasion I look it up to see if it's ready for general consumption yet.

Those who are in the beta, what's your thoughts on this editor?


  👤 f311a Accepted Answer ✓
I think Jetbrains is busy relocating their staff.

👤 phlyingpenguin
I noticed earlier today that most of the Fleet documentation was last updated on May 2 and references "1.0", but it's pretty sparse for a release-ready documentation site.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/fleet/getting-started.html

Edit: I don't expect this really means anything. The entire site seems to have been generated at once, and that was ~3 weeks ago.


👤 azeirah
Don't know much about Fleet, but their accompanying space project is slowly getting better and better!

I'm liking it a lot. It isn't something particularly great yet but I like having my own domain, I like having integration with Jetbrains products, I like my own repos in a not-so-public location, I like extremely-easy-to-set-up CI.

Gitlab checks most of these boxes too but.. Dunno, Space just feels more intuitive to me. Might be due to the docs being really solid.


👤 swozey
It is very barebones, I can't use it as a full-time IDE yet.

👤 okaybuy
I have high hopes for this but I dont forsee anything being ready for a few years, Jetbrains moves at a snail pace - even when the threat radar is flashing alerts e.g. VsCode remote dev - today they are just barely getting their remote development story out of beta after flip flopping for several years on approach and half baked plugin inconsistent implementations

👤 xvilo
I got access last month to the closed beta and it's indeed still very Barebones and buggy on Marcos. Although, they seem to be pretty active on the bug tracker, I think it will take some serious time before its ready.

👤 linuxftw
I just tried it. Can't 'goto definition' for dependencies for Go or Python, so that function is almost useless for those languages IMO.

👤 champagnepapi
As a PYCharm and Datagrip user, excited to hear updates :)