alt Hacker NewsWell its a russian company, and took part in the solarwinds hack, that was directly funded by the fsb. So, yeah, it should ve scrutinized, nitpicked and avoided at all costs.
Its 2026, there is no need for a proprieraty IDE that is stuck in the early 2000s.
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JetBrains is and has always been a Czech (and, thus, EU) company, not a Russian one. Yes, the founders are Russian, but that does not make the company so. They did have Russian offices, but closed them after the start of the Ukraine war [1].
The only confirmed link to the SolarWinds attack seems to be that SolarWinds was using TeamCity (JetBrains' CI/CD product) and that this was alledgedly used as a "gateway" to SolarWinds' systems - which doesn't require any cooperation from JetBrains, just an unpatched security issue. In fact, a patch by JetBrains for the exploited issue seems to have been available, but was not installed [2].
So while any company deserves scrutiny, these particular allegations against JetBrains smell like FUD to me.
See also JetBrains' own statements on the SolarWinds thing: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains
[2]: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...
They closed all their russian office locations at the start of the Ukraine war afaik so I wouldn't call it russian any more.
Source: trust me bro
So we get to replace it for a programmer's editor from the early 1980's instead, good call.