2000

JetBrains founded

JetBrains was founded in 2000 in Prague — starting as IntelliJ s.r.o. before shipping IntelliJ IDEA and growing into a family of language-specific IDEs.

What it was for

JetBrainsJetBrains built the IDEIntegrated development environment — an editor with debugging, build tools, and project management built in. stack many developers live in: IntelliJ IDEA for JavaA portable language running on the JVM — dominant in enterprise servers, Android, and big data., then RubyMine, PhpStorm, WebStorm, PyCharm, Rider, and the KotlinA modern language from JetBrains — officially supported for Android and interoperable with Java. language itself. Its IntelliJ Platform also powers AndroidGoogle's open mobile operating system — the dominant platform for smartphones worldwide. Studio and Google's language tooling partnerships.

Companies

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  • Sun Microsystems

Why it's here

JetBrains became the dominant independent IDEIntegrated development environment — an editor with debugging, build tools, and project management built in. vendor outside MicrosoftThe software giant behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox — founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. and Apple.

Why it mattered

It proved deep static analysis and refactoringRestructuring code without changing behavior — improving design while keeping tests green. could be a sustainable product business.

What it solved

JavaA portable language running on the JVM — dominant in enterprise servers, Android, and big data. and polyglot teams needed smarter tooling than free Eclipse plugins could deliver.

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