Jetbrains, the creator of IntelliJ IDEA, has been asked many times: "When will JetBrains create a lightweight editor?" JetBrains finally gave the answer this time.
Jetbrains builds Fleet from scratch based on 20 years of IDE development experience, uses the IntelliJ code processing engine, has a distributed IDE architecture and a redesigned UI, let's take a look at what this lightweight new generation IDE has What features are worth looking forward to?
Lightweight IDE
JetBrains built Fleet as a fast and lightweight text editor that can meet your needs for quickly browsing and editing code. It starts up in seconds, and it can also be easily converted to an IDE, @lntelliJ code processing triggers run separately from the editor itself, improving operational efficiency.
Smart Code Verification
Fleet inherits developer favorites from the IntelliJ-based IDE – project and context-aware code completion, definition and usage navigation, live code quality checks, and quick fixes.
Fleet also has smart completion, refactoring, navigation, debugging, and all the features you've always had in an IDE. You can turn on/off these functions with one click, making it simple and convenient.
Support multilingual experience
Fleet offers a multilingual experience with out-of-the-box intelligent support for multiple languages and technologies, with plans to support more through dedicated plugins.
Fleet is designed to automatically detect your project configuration from source code, maximizing the value you can get from its intelligent code processing engine while minimizing the need to configure your project in the IDE.
distributed architecture
Fleet was built from the ground up to meet the needs of developers who don't necessarily work on local projects. It doesn't matter whether your project is local, in a container, or thousands of miles away. Because it uses a virtual file system, you can use Fleet to develop projects in the same way both locally and remotely.
Fleet is distributed and divided into frontend, backend, workspace server and file system watcher. This allows Fleet itself to run in a distributed fashion, for example, allowing scenarios where analytics and other operations are run on remote machines.
Support multi-person collaboration
Fleet was built with the idea of collaboration connected. Whether local or remote, you can easily collaborate with multiple people on projects. It is capable of working on the same or different files concurrently, running tests, accessing a terminal, and performing other functions expected from a collaborative IDE.
