Equivalents because VSCode and its forks are not an equivalent.
TL;DR Jetbrains is getting worse, more like VSCode. I want out to something as powerful but not VSCode like (which is worse).
Jetbrains has been chasing VSCode’s popularity to the detriment of its own product.
The modal commit dialog is now opt-in, behind a nearly hidden, advanced parameter and will be removed in the not so distant future. This was part of their effort to make the UI “leaner” and more like VSCode so now Jetbrains IDEs look more like it.
Some keyboard shortcuts have also had to be changed to be more like VSCode.
Jetbrains used to have a good docker integration, but that’s either unmaintained or undergoing work to support dev-containers better - something that jetbrains practically had nearly a decade ago, which allowed you to code on another server (remote development).
AI Assistant and Junie (their coding agents which I have to use for work) have consistently been behind the curve and just keep getting worse. They have 2 separate products for agentic development and can’t decide which to keep, so they duplicate efforts and fail at both. Now I’m asking my employer to just give me Cursor like the rest of the team, so I don’t have to put up with this Jetbrains crap.
Privately, AI it’s non-starter anyway, but my guess is that Jetbrains is also focussing more development efforts on that than actually fixing existing bugs.
I’m confused. Are you looking for a fancy text editor (VS Code) or a full IDE (Most Jetbrains Products, the actual Visual Studio’s)?
Either way, for a fancy text editor, there’s VS Codium. Just VS Code without MS bs like telemetry and stuff. Works really well, I switched as soon as I heared about it and never looked back.
Now when it comes to a full blown IDE, I don’t think there is anything comparable, especially when you look at features vs cost. Free, or even FOSS solutions, won’t even come close to Jetbrains products and I never bothered looking for enterprise solutions since I can’t afford them anyway. Depending on your language requirements and OS choice there’s Visual Studio of course and even Community used to be pretty good, but I haven’t used that one since my switch to Linux so I can’t tell how it perfoms nowadays.
Now if I’m wrong, my information is outdated or I may not know about some software that is actually really neat, please correct me.
IIRC QT creator is kind of an open source IDE, but it’s also fairly application specific so I’m not sure how suitable it is overall.