JetBrains
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- Founded
- Headquarters
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Type
- Developer tools
- Website
- jetbrains.com
Builds development environments that actually understand the code — and created the Kotlin language along the way.
Founded by three Russian developers, headquartered in Prague. The breakthrough was IntelliJ IDEA, whose point was that the tool analyses the whole project semantically rather than treating source as text. That made reliable refactoring possible — rename a method and every call site follows, correctly.
The model was repeated per language: PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, Rider, CLion, all on the same platform. Google chose IntelliJ as the basis for Android Studio in 2013. Kotlin, which JetBrains released in 2011, became Google's recommended language for Android in 2019.