1. JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2026: AI, New APIs, and More What does the rise of AI agents mean for plugin development? And what new tools and APIs can help you build better plugins for JetBrains IDEs? These are some of the topics we’ 10/21 05:49 ♡
2. Small Talk with Ulises Olave, CTO and Co-Founder of Fitia What is Small Talk? Small Talk is our short Q&A with founders from the JetBrains Startup Program. They answer a handful of questions in their own words about what they’re bui 10/20 23:06 ♡
3. Coding-Agent Benchmarks Should Match Their Users’ Task Flows Left: SWE-Bench Pro, where each task is a single user message, almost always a new feature or a bug fix. Right: the first five developer messages in sessions of software engineers 10/20 18:27 ♡
4. Why We Still Need an IDE I’ve been mulling this over for about a year now. The developer landscape has shifted to the point where you can’t scroll past the news without seeing someone declare & 10/20 17:31 ♡
5. Dynamics of Sentiment and Attitudes Toward AI Among Developers For the last three years, we’ve been measuring developer sentiment and attitudes toward the role of AI across the software development lifecycle via our Developer Ecosystem surveys 10/19 19:57 ♡
6. J JetBrains .NET Day Online 2026: Watch the Recordings Every session from October 7 is now on YouTube. .NET Day Online 2026 took place on October 7. Thanks to everyone who watched the livestream and asked questions in the chat! If you 10/19 16:00 ♡
7. Can you bake Maven into a neural network? We tried, and it builds. We compiled the decision-making part of a Maven-style build tool into a fixed weight matrix and used it to build a real Java library. The output matches Ap 10/19 00:36 ♡
8. Junie Local Comes to the NVIDIA RTX Spark Junie Local is supported on the NVIDIA RTX Spark from day one, and Windows support moves from experimental to stable. Junie Local runs alongside LLM training on the same RTX Spark 10/16 21:53 ♡
9. Google Summer of Code 2026 With the Kotlin Foundation: Recap Google Summer of Code 2026 has wrapped up! This was the Kotlin Foundation ’s fourth year participating in GSoC, bringing new contributors into the Kotlin open-source ecosystem thro 10/15 23:03 ♡
10. I IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and Kotlin for Cursor and VS Code Hits 1.0 Ten weeks ago, we opened up a preview of an LSP-powered extension that brings IntelliJ IDEA’s smartness for Java and Kotlin into VS Code and Cursor. As mentioned in that blog 10/15 21:06 ♡