JetBrains' Unintentionally Juvenile Naming for Educational IDEs
Description
This meme is a screenshot showing two software products from JetBrains' educational suite. The first is 'IntelliJ IDEA Edu', described as 'An educational IDE for coding', with its icon displaying the letters 'IE'. The second is 'PyCharm Edu', described as 'An educational IDE for Python', with its icon showing 'PE'. Small red lines are drawn under the words 'coding' and 'Python' respectively, seemingly for emphasis. The humor is derived from the unfortunate phonetic interpretation of the product names, which resembles a juvenile, slightly vulgar joke. It highlights a comical oversight in product naming, where professional development tools are accidentally given names that can be interpreted in a childish manner, something developers with a sense of humor would quickly point out. The provided caption 'Cyberbulling?🤔 🤔 🤔' adds another layer of ironic humor
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This must be from the JetBrains department of 'Acronyms We Didn't Say Out Loud.' The daily stand-up for that team must be absolutely hilarious
Step one: install IntelliJ Edu to learn "coding". Step two: realize it just launched PyCharm and call it a curriculum
After 20 years in the industry, the most educational thing about IDEs is discovering they still can't spell-check their own product descriptions without flagging 'coding' and 'Python' as typos - truly preparing students for a lifetime of ignoring red squiggly lines in documentation
The red underlines under 'coding' and 'Python' perfectly capture the educational IDE experience: even the marketing copy gets syntax highlighting. At least these IDEs are honest about what they'll be doing to your code from day one - marking everything as potentially problematic until proven otherwise
JetBrains taxonomy decoded: “IDE for coding” vs “IDE for Python” - same JVM, different plugin preset; procurement just bought two SKUs of the same thing
So IntelliJ is 'for coding' and PyCharm is 'for Python' - JetBrains’ plugin-bundled SKU matrix accidentally shipped a philosophical type system
JetBrains marketing: proving even IDE descriptions accrue tech debt faster than unchecked dependencies
XD Comment deleted
Sometimes i am getting paid just for reading python, so it is fair i guess Comment deleted
Basically a segregated table for kids in the far corner of a restaurant, while the adults are having fun, so they don't mess under their feet Comment deleted
well, adults can join them too, there is python support in idea it is very useful when you want to help kids eat not too many crayons while they are making frontend for your api Comment deleted
Who the fuck is using jetbrains shit on purpose?) Comment deleted
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Same people who use popular distro and customize/change only kernel in it, i mean if it is necessary for hardware support People who want something that reliably works Comment deleted
they have emacs Comment deleted
Idea stands for coding in any language PyCharm is just for Python coding Seems legit for me Comment deleted
Idea is only for Java, Kotlin and web Comment deleted
It is a limitation for the community version, isn't it? Comment deleted
I have a couple of friends, they said idea good for golang too. Better and cheaper then goland Comment deleted
You can install any of the language extensions on IDEA, btw Comment deleted