Comment by manquer

7 months ago

Everyone has a niche, Windsurf is the only large provider if you are a Jetbrains shop.

There are some alternatives like continue.dev or Jetbrains own AI offering but no Cursor or Claude Code ( Sonnet 3.7/4) you can get through Jetbrains plugin or others, but Anthropic does not provide support same with cursor.

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sschueller  7 months ago

Jetbrain's Junie works incredibly well. I much prefer it over cursor's or continue's UI.

  • insane_dreamer  7 months ago

    What does it offer that's better than running CC with Pycharm/Jetbrains?

    • manquer  7 months ago

      I just tried it out. It does feel better than CC for some tasks .

      I think what Junie does differently it has better context on what the IDE knows or sees , from what files are open or typedefs are loaded, I could achieve some simpler tasks with lesser prompts and less tokens and cycles than with CC or even windsurf.

      Jetbrains has the best incentive to integrate deeply I imagine, it has always been question of execution, it seems a fairly robust system.

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lp4x  7 months ago

Been using AugmentCode on Jetbrains. By far the best. I tried Junie and Windsurf

paulbgd  7 months ago

Check out sweep. Completely unaffiliated, their only offering is the jetbrains plugin so it gets a lot more focus than windsurf. Only downside is that Claude code is still a better agent, but at least its tab complete is some of the best

rafaelmn  7 months ago

GitHub copilot now has agents in jetbrain (not sure about stable - my nightly does).

Jetbrains Junie is supposedly the same thing but no Rider and that's my current project so didn't get into that yet.

Windsurf was just disappointingly bad in intellij (like any other plugin I've tried so far)

  • allertonm  7 months ago

    The copilot agent stuff in IntelliJ works relatively well in my experience, they managed to implement a quite cursor-like “accept/reject” UI in a plugin, you know, forking IDEA. There are some areas like getting it to use git tools where cursor works more smoothly but you can coax Copilot into producing the same results. I’m just generally happier working in IntelliJ vs VSCode so I’ve tended to favour Copilot.

    Never tried Windsurf in it’s recent form but we did evaluate it when it was still called Codeium and everyone liked Copilot better.