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In light of this post, and ignoring Sublime Text as I’ve tried it and don’t like it, what commercial IDEs are worth looking at for a generalist like me who bounces between C, Python, Terraform, YAML, Markdown, and more? I’m on Linux.

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JetBrains IDEA. It can do pretty much everything and has been my daily driver for almost a decade now.

I was just looking at their products. Looks like IDEA is aimed at Java developers, but I assume that doesn’t prevent it being used for other languages?

Specifically you should look at the JetBrains All Products Pack. That's what I have and I've used Pycharm, CLion, Datagrip and Rider extensively. I love being able to switch languages without having to learn a new interface, keyboard shortcuts, etc. You get a nice JetBrains Toolbox app to manage all your IDEs.

Agreed. The price between just IDEA and the all products pack is not terribly different and I enjoy using IDEA and Datagrip. I've also played with a few other of their IDEs and it's nice to not have to learn anything new. That said, I do 99% of my work in IDEA since it can do pretty much everything.

My only major complaint about JetBrains is that they make me switch programs when switching languages. I have a license for CLion and PyCharm Pro, and while they're both great, the fact that I cannot 'import' all the features from one into the other is quite infuriating.

Pretty sure you can do this in the Ultimate version? You just install the necessary plugins.

That's what I do. I can program my Go, Python, Java, and JavaScript projects all within IDEA Ultimate by just installing the extension from the marketplace. The only exceptions are C/C++ and Rust that 'require' a different IDE or paid extension and don't work in IDEA Ultimate for whatever reason.

The Ultimate version has very primitive C++ support last time I checked. Nothing compared to what they offer with CLion.

Second Jetbrains' Intellij - Ultimate is all you need. Never really understood the point of the standalones.

I've tried other editors, including VS Code, because it was free. I always come back to Intellij.

So far, so good. It's quite nice. It feels very complete and polished. Everything is well thought out and it feels as though it "Just Works" (jinx!!)

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