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• IntelliJ Scala Plugin in 2025

  In December 2024, we published a year-in-review summary of our work on the Scala Plugin. By that time the following year, we were busy releasing IntelliJ IDEA and the Scala Plugin 2025.3, as well as preparing for the upcoming Scala 3.8 release. This was followed by a long holiday break. But as they say, not […]

• Rust vs JavaScript & TypeScript: performance, WebAssembly, and developer experience

  TL;DR Rust and JavaScript/TypeScript (JS/TS) are often perceived as rivals, but in reality, they’re complementary languages that serve different purposes and excel across different domains. They were designed with different goals in mind, which dictate the best use cases for each. JavaScript/TypeScript offers benefits such as unmatched flexibility, a massive ecosystem, and rapid iteration. Meanwhile, […]

• A Year of Creator Wins: Highlights from the JetBrains Content Creators Program 2025

  With more than 200 new members joining the JetBrains Content Creator community, we were bound to hear some exciting new things from them in 2025. Our members were steadily increasing in number, honing their YouTube videos, tirelessly keeping up with the posting schedule, and providing JetBrains perks directly to their audiences. But the real results […]

• The Jenkins Migration Planning Kit

  This article was brought to you by Cameron Pavey, draft.dev. Jenkins has served the development community well for over a decade, but it was designed for a different era of software development. Developers who are tired of fighting with plugin compatibility issues, slow builds, and brittle configurations are exploring alternatives. But is your organization ready […]

• Building AI Agents in Kotlin – Part 5: Teaching Agents to Forget

  Previously in this series: Agents eventually run out of context. When they do, they crash, and you lose everything mid-task. We’ve been running GPT-5 Codex since Part 1. It scores 0.58 on SWE-bench Verified. We tried Claude Sonnet 4.5 next, which scored 0.6 and ran faster on most tasks. But complex problems hit Claude’s 200K […]