Ask HN: Updates on Jetbrains Fleet?

by sarahdellysse on 5/20/2022, 7:30:21 PM with 20 comments
It's been like half a year since it was first announced in closed beta; I never got an invite to the beta, and on occasion I look it up to see if it's ready for general consumption yet.

Those who are in the beta, what's your thoughts on this editor?

  • by f311a on 5/20/2022, 8:04:10 PM

    I think Jetbrains is busy relocating their staff.

  • by phlyingpenguin on 5/20/2022, 8:10:40 PM

    I noticed earlier today that most of the Fleet documentation was last updated on May 2 and references "1.0", but it's pretty sparse for a release-ready documentation site.

    https://www.jetbrains.com/help/fleet/getting-started.html

    Edit: I don't expect this really means anything. The entire site seems to have been generated at once, and that was ~3 weeks ago.

  • by azeirah on 5/20/2022, 8:42:18 PM

    Don't know much about Fleet, but their accompanying space project is slowly getting better and better!

    I'm liking it a lot. It isn't something particularly great yet but I like having my own domain, I like having integration with Jetbrains products, I like my own repos in a not-so-public location, I like extremely-easy-to-set-up CI.

    Gitlab checks most of these boxes too but.. Dunno, Space just feels more intuitive to me. Might be due to the docs being really solid.

  • by swozey on 5/20/2022, 8:24:18 PM

    It is very barebones, I can't use it as a full-time IDE yet.

  • by okaybuy on 5/22/2022, 3:33:04 AM

    I have high hopes for this but I dont forsee anything being ready for a few years, Jetbrains moves at a snail pace - even when the threat radar is flashing alerts e.g. VsCode remote dev - today they are just barely getting their remote development story out of beta after flip flopping for several years on approach and half baked plugin inconsistent implementations

  • by xvilo on 5/21/2022, 11:02:14 AM

    I got access last month to the closed beta and it's indeed still very Barebones and buggy on Marcos. Although, they seem to be pretty active on the bug tracker, I think it will take some serious time before its ready.

  • by linuxftw on 5/20/2022, 9:04:11 PM

    I just tried it. Can't 'goto definition' for dependencies for Go or Python, so that function is almost useless for those languages IMO.

  • by champagnepapi on 5/20/2022, 8:04:20 PM

    As a PYCharm and Datagrip user, excited to hear updates :)