Almost everything starts "lightweight", limited, easy to handle and use syntax, short but expressive - until you add feature by feature to it, and voila end up building tools on top of your tool.
From a business perspective Jetbrains is doomed to follow this path, since they wanna make money, they have to lure you into their ecosystem and make switching to other solutions as hard as possible. Also they have to add feature by feature just to simulate progress.
There is some magic in simply sticking to one system and never change, say MD. It has its limitations, but this is true for everything.
JetBrains' tool looks promising, but I fear it will be a creepy mess in 5 years from now.
I have seen this movie before, when Borland thought they couldn't go further with Delphi and C++ Builder, bought a company in SDLC/ALM space, and then Imprise came to be.
JetBrains trying to go everywhere, and also trying to push Kotlin outside the JVM ecosystem, kind of brings memories back.
Almost everything starts "lightweight", limited, easy to handle and use syntax, short but expressive - until you add feature by feature to it, and voila end up building tools on top of your tool.
From a business perspective Jetbrains is doomed to follow this path, since they wanna make money, they have to lure you into their ecosystem and make switching to other solutions as hard as possible. Also they have to add feature by feature just to simulate progress.
There is some magic in simply sticking to one system and never change, say MD. It has its limitations, but this is true for everything.
JetBrains' tool looks promising, but I fear it will be a creepy mess in 5 years from now.