

"But wait, there's more! Fleet is also a fully functional IDE bringing smart completion, refactorings, navigation, debugging, and everything else that you're used to having in an IDE - all with a single button click." "When you first launch Fleet, it starts up as a full-fledged editor that provides syntax highlighting, simple code completion, and all the things you'd expect from an editor," JetBrains said. 28 announcement, many media pundits immediately characterized it along the lines of an "answer to Visual Studio Code," a "response to Visual Studio Code," a "competitor to Visual Studio Code" and so on. They'd received 80,000 requests in just the first 30 hours, reports Visual Studio magazine:Īlthough JetBrains didn't even mention VS Code in its Nov. ("To subscribe for updates and the public preview announcement at /fleet or follow on Twitter.") On Monday JetBrains (creators of the Kotlin programming language and makers of the integrated development environment IntelliJ IDEA) made an announcement: a preview for a lightweight new multi-language IDE called Fleet using IntelliJ's code-processing engine with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.īy Friday they'd received an "overwhelming" number of requests, and announced the preview program had stopped accepting new requests.
