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IDEA's Intelligence Is Now Inside VS Code: A 1.0 Hands-On

Completion is guesswork, go-to-definition is luck, and you do not dare press rename. On October 15, JetBrains turned the Java and Kotlin engine from IntelliJ IDEA into a language server extension and shipped 1.0, installable in VS Code, Cursor, and Google Antigravity.

A Patch That Saved 15 MiB Got Rejected, and the Reason Was Not in the Code

An engineer was doing size optimization on his own iOS build and found that one extra compiler flag shrank the bundle by 15 MiB. He filed an issue with a reproduction on a public project and data from real devices, and opened a pull request that same night.

Are the Big Three Back in the Game?

First reaction: “oh, finally.”