On: Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?

[Tomte]

Most of it is Open Source and on GitHub, anyway. So you shouldn‘t be surprised to see source code.

The Community edition lacks certain features, though.

[yi_xuan → Tomte]

Goland has no community version :)

[Tmpod → yi_xuan]

As far as I'm aware, all their IDEs are based on IDEA, almost acting as IDEA+special plugin, so a lot of code will still be the same. Of course, the language-specific stuff is not open, but as others have said, Java bytecode is fairly easily decompiled anyway.

[Tomte → yi_xuan]

Oh right, I always assume that JetBrains has the same strategy across its tools. Happened not for the first time. Thanks for reminding me!

[p0w3n3d → Tomte]

I remember go being a plugin to intellij idea. Now it's not. Sadly. I wonder how they got over with this plugin having been opensource

[ipaddr → p0w3n3d]

Is this the plugin?

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9568-go