From a report:
JetBrains has added further destinations to the IntelliJ-based roadmap it sketched out last year, promising more localization, machine learning and Git integration amongst a range of other goodies for the Java IDE…
The Prague-based firm’s CTO Dimitry Jemerov said users had long asked to be able to use its IDEs for “general purpose text editing”. While this is possible to some degree currently, in some situations it created a temporary project file, leading to disk clutter and “other inconveniences”. However, recent performance improvements mean “the possibility of using our IDEs as lightweight text editors has become more plausible, so we’re now building a dedicated mode for editing non-project files. In this mode, the IDE will work more like a simple text editor.” This will be faster, he promised, but the feature set will be very limited and “you’ll be able to easily switch to the full project mode if you need to use features such as refactoring or debugging…
Other upcoming features include more machine learning. Jemerov said this was already being used to improve code completion, but would now be rolled out for other completion features. “We’re teaching ML completion to make better use of the context for ranking completion suggestions and to generate completion variants that go beyond a single identifier (full-line completion)”. That might take a while, he said, but was a “major area where we are investing our efforts.”
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