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Previewing the IDE of the Future — Fleet

Percy Bolmér
Better Programming
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12 min readOct 20, 2022
Image by Percy Bolmér. Gopher by Takuya Ueda, Original Go Gopher by Renée French (CC BY 3.0)

I’ve been waiting a long time for JetBrains to release their new product Fleet. Quiet frankly, I’ve always found JetBrains products to be much more powerful than their competitors, but also very expensive for a good reason.

The IDE is one of the developer’s most important tooling; it is where we spend most of our time, and it is important to have a good tool.

I am a frequent Go developer, and GoLand always struck me as the most powerful editor.

So you might think I would be using Goland? I do have a license provided by my gracious employer, but I can’t stand using it. The UI looks so old and confusing that I can’t live with it. There are so many buttons, and everything is hidden behind some menu.

I have been super excited about Fleet however, imagine the power of IntelliJ’s products but with a nicer UI. That caught my eye. I know they can provide powerful products, but I would be sold if they could manage a better UI.

The product is still unfinished and has been in closed Beta for a while, but they recently released a public Preview. Let us download it and give it a spin!

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Percy Bolmér
Percy Bolmér

Written by Percy Bolmér

Software developer, Author/Blogger. Writes about Technology, Programming and Go. https://programmingpercy.tech/

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