JetBrains s.r.o. (formerly IntelliJ Software s.r.o.) is a Czech software development company which makes tools for

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and project managers. , the company has offices in

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. The company offers

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s (IDEs) for the programming languages

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, Groovy, Kotlin,

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, and the domain-specific language SQL. The company created the Kotlin programming language, which can run in a Java virtual machine (JVM), in 2011. ''

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History

JetBrains, initially called IntelliJ Software, was founded in 2000 in

by three Russian software developers: Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipyatkov and Eugene Belyaev. The company's first product was IntelliJ Renamer, a tool for code refactoring in Java. In 2012 CEO Sergey Dmitriev left the company and was replaced by Oleg Stepanov and Maxim Shafirov. In 2021 ''

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'' stated that unknown parties might have embedded malware in JetBrains' software that led to the SolarWinds hack and other widespread security compromises. In a press release, JetBrains said they had not been contacted by any government or security agency and had not "taken part or been involved in this attack in any way". The CEO of one of the affected companies, SolarWinds, "asked about the possibility that software tools made by JetBrains, which speeds the development and testing of code, was the pathway, Mr. Ramakrishna said there was still no evidence". In response to the

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, the company suspended sales and R&D activities in Russia indefinitely as well as sales in Belarus.

Products

IDEs

The following is a non-exhaustive list of integrated development environments (IDEs) distributed by JetBrains.

Programming languages

Kotlin is an open-source, statically typed

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that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and also compiles to

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(via LLVM). The name comes from the Kotlin Island, near St. Petersburg. JetBrains MPS is an open-source language workbench for domain-specific languages (DSLs).

Team tools

TeamCity is a continuous integration and continuous delivery server developed by JetBrains. It is a server-based web application written in Java. ''

'' reported that TeamCity may have been used by Russian hackers of US governmental and private agencies, in potentially "the biggest breach of United States networks in history". Upsource is a code review and repository browsing tool supporting Git, GitHub, Mercurial, Perforce and/or Subversion repositories from a central location. YouTrack is a proprietary, commercial web-based

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, and

project management software Project management software (PMS) has the capacity to help plan, organize, and manage resource tools and develop resource estimates. Depending on the sophistication of the software, it can manage estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control ...

developed by JetBrains. Ktor is a Kotlin-based programming framework for developing "connected applications", using the same framework on both server (JVM) and client (JavaScript, Android, and iOS).

Others

Datalore is a web application for data analysis and visualization, which is focused specifically on the machine learning environment in Python. JetBrains Academy is an online platform to learn programming, including such programming languages as Python, Java, and Kotlin. The Academy was introduced by JetBrains in 2019, and reached 200,000 users by July 2020. Certifications were added in November 2021 after community feedback prioritized verifiability of the work done on projects. JetBrains have also developed EduTools plugin for student, this plugin is compatible with IntelliJ IDEA (Ultimate, Community, Educational), Android Studio
CLionGoLand
PhpStorm, PyCharm (Professional, Community, Educational),

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Open source projects

In 2009, JetBrains open-sourced the core functionality of

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by offering the free Community Edition. It is built on the IntelliJ Platform and includes its sources. JetBrains released both under Apache License 2.0. In 2010, Android support became a part of the Community Edition, and two years later

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announced its Android Studio, the IDE for mobile development on Android platform built on the Community Edition of IntelliJ IDEA and an official alternative to Eclipse Android Developer Tool. In June 2015, it was announced that the support of Eclipse ADT would be discontinued making Android Studio the official tool for Android App development. In January 2020, JetBrains released a geometric

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font called JetBrains Mono, made the default font for their IDEs, under the Apache License 2.0. The font is designed for reading source code by being optimized for reading vertically with support for programming ligatures.

References

External links

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