alt Hacker NewsDon't forget about their AI Assistant (agentic but mostly chat focused plugin) and Junie (a harness, that you can apparently use through Air too), people have critiqued them about it being messy, but tbh OpenCode for example has TUI, web and desktop versions heh.
Oh to make things more interesting, Air also has a mobile option too, adding to the list. Odd to couple it with an IDE though since you have various IDEs for various stacks (e.g. IntelliJ IDEA vs WebStorm vs GoLand, unless you just shove a crapload of plugins into IDEA) and agentic tools don't always need all of that.
To be fair though, they're probably scrambling to keep up with the AI craze because it cuts into their margins A LOT and throwing everything they can at the wall. Shame they killed Fleet, could have been a cool basis to compete with Zed (or VS Code, more directly) and integrate Air there or something.
>Shame they killed Fleet, could have been a cool basis to compete with Zed (or VS Code, more directly) and integrate Air there or something.
JB’s wheelhouse is human-oriented code authoring, they own it. That realization is the fundamental reason they abandoned Fleet: as with VS Code and others, Fleet was draining their talent and would have resulted in a tool that wasn’t best-of-breed in any one category.
This situation reminds me of the beginning of the end of Borland’s demise: they spent nearly two years writing OS/2 versions of all their language products, suspending innovation and progress across the board, and allowing the competition (Microsoft) to catch up and begin to hire away their talent.
This story doesn’t perfectly align with JB, but it definitely rhymes. I hope they switched gears soon enough.