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JetBrains IDEs pros and cons

Vendor: JetBrains
4.4 out of 5
 

JetBrains IDEs Pros review quotes

it_user994476 - PeerSpot reviewer
Desarrollador Java Jr/BPM Jr at Agnostic | a cognitive company
Feb 4, 2019
It seems to me as one of the best IDEs in the market, they are always releasing new versions with positive improvements, and in my opinion, I recommend it in its entirety.
WK
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 19, 2019
Good support for refactoring.
Paco Velasco Reina - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Open HealthCare
Jul 23, 2023
Having the complete development environment in Linux in the same way as in Windows is already the best.
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Souhardyya Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 23, 2025
The UI is pretty good and very intuitive.
Rusira Sathnindu - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Mar 4, 2026
The best features offered by JetBrains IDEs include a super attractive set of language-specific tools including debuggers, symbol monitors, and the extensions that come with it, which helps me get a much more in-depth view of my code rather than relying on print or log statements.
Terrell Potts - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Arrowlytics, LLC
Mar 10, 2026
From the very beginning to the deepest thing I could possibly want to develop, I believe I could do it all using JetBrains IDEs.
 

JetBrains IDEs Cons review quotes

it_user994476 - PeerSpot reviewer
Desarrollador Java Jr/BPM Jr at Agnostic | a cognitive company
Feb 4, 2019
I see as a disadvantage the high prices of the license purchase that is almost $ 500 per year since this limits the use of IDE and especially for those developers who work on their own since it requires a large investment.
WK
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 19, 2019
Sometimes, plugins (from third parties) are not updated.
Paco Velasco Reina - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Open HealthCare
Jul 23, 2023
One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory.
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Souhardyya Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 23, 2025
I have noticed that when I switch to less powerful machines, IntelliJ seems to use up the RAM and the machine gets really slow and really hot quite quickly, which is not the case with Visual Studio.
Rusira Sathnindu - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Mar 4, 2026
One of the main issues with JetBrains IDEs is that it is very heavy, taking a lot of time to load and using a lot of memory.
Terrell Potts - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Arrowlytics, LLC
Mar 10, 2026
One thing I think could be improved in JetBrains IDEs is the integration with ChatGPT, which I feel could be deeper.