I had the all-tools subscription for years (working mainly on Spring Boot and Angular projects) and IntelliJ and Webstorm were fantastic. Then I started Vue projects and later on Svelte and the Webstorm support for both (and Tailwind btw.) has been a disaster. Esp. how they handled the countless issues created by me and many others. Many other small annoyances like no support for international keyboards with dead keys on Linux and esp. how support handled it.
So, I had to move to VS Code for Vue and Svelte and as I didn't want to use 2 different IDEs I canceled my JB subscription. So far VS Code is pretty good for Goland and Rust as well, but as you said, I struggle to find something as good as DataGrip for SQL. Maybe I should just get a DataGrip license (single tool).
Edit: I forgot another issue ... DataGrip didn't support the latest SQLite version for a very long time, as the maintainer for the open source Java client wasn't working on it. When I dared to ask the JB support a second time for the status after a while, I got a stroppy reply from the responsible Jetbrains engineer, as how I dare asking twice and there's nothing Jebrains could do when the single person maintainer of an open source lib is doing other stuff with his life. Crazy.
Speaking for a friend. Yes there is, but quietly and slowly bootstrapped without publicity. Life events got in my friend's way so it's just as well they didn't take funding those years ago. VC in the UK is a pale shadow of VC in San Francisco anyway.
Very similar goals, including fab suitable for low-NRE open source hardware design iterations, but grander vision: making more of the hardware tools as well instead of purchasing them, building a stack that is not silicon-specific, extensive use of physics simulation and feedback to design specialised toolchains. That is partly because bootstrap finance requires inventing cheaper tooling than is available on the market, not just cheaper lithography.
Atomic Semi will almost certainly get their faster due to funding, better network, more pragmatism, track record of the people involved, and location. But friend's thing might go further into advanced and novel capabilities, eventually, if they continue with it.
Interestingly, their original goal was to stimulate a culture of open source hardware at the lower levels by providing a service to fabricate new designs at low cost, the way that has already happened with software, i.e. anyone can learn it in their bedroom and take it as far as their skills permit, causing a significant change of culture and knowledge sharing. That goal doesn't seem to be needed any more because of the Efabless-Skywater-Google collaboration making hobby-level ASIC fabrication available for free, and the rapid increase in available open source hardware design tools at steadily higher quality. And things like Atomic Semi emerging. The culture has already changed.
Thank you for this link. That was incredibly interesting. I won't spoil the twist at the end, suffice to say that I now am hoping for something like that in a scifi movie.
I'm the CTO at NoblePro. We're building a tech team, and looking for folks who want to help us hack on treadmills, bluetooth, and the software that connects it all.
This stack is probably not something that most people have given much thought, but fitness-tech has exploded, and we're doing some super interesting things.
NoblePro has been around for 3 years, we're self funded, and profitable. With this round of hiring, we're hoping to build the tech team to launch our apps and platform globally over the next 2 years.
If that sounds interesting, I'd really like to chat to you about it.
