[kassah]

Specific IDEs is actually the selling point for me as a polyglot developer, that often switches between projects in different languages. When I need to work on a C project, I'm in CLion; when I'm working on a Python project, I'm in PyCharm; when I'm working on Go, I'm in GoLand. I don't have a ton of plugins dragging my single IntelliJ down, I just have what I need when I need it. I could spend a bunch of time tweaking each project with project specific settings, but that eats a lot of my time I could be making features or fixing bugs with.

The other thing it does, it let's their team really focus on polishing a product. For instance with Go, they had a plugin, and it worked okay, but when they came out with GoLand, they really started filling all the gaps, and polishing the Go development experience, making sure all the default plugins for it made a great overall Go development experience by default.

These reasons are I think why you see people excited about a JetBrains Rust IDE in other comment branches of this post. The polish and ease of use. The priority on taking the point of those things that just are slightly annoying. The difference between something cobbled together or a plugin that just has to deal with existing extension points and a fully polished marketable product.