Comment by manquer
18 hours 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.
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
Jetbrain's Junie works incredibly well. I much prefer it over cursor's or continue's UI.
What does it offer that's better than running CC with Pycharm/Jetbrains?
claude code has a Jetbrains plugin which is delightful!
Seems a recent launch in beta just in June .
Thanks for the share !
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)
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.