JetBrains has unveiled the 2024.2 updates to its household of JetBrains IDEs and its JetBrains AI Assistant. The updates convey a brand new streamlined consumer interface to the IDEs, and improved code completion and chat to the JetBrains AI Assistant. JetBrains unveiled the 2024.2 updates on August 6.
The JetBrains AI Assistant 2024.2 gives sooner and smarter code completion for Java, Kotlin, and Python, powered by JetBrains’ internally educated giant language fashions (LLMs). Assist for different languages is coming sooner or later, JetBrains mentioned. The AI assistant’s chat additionally now’s smarter, due to GPT-4o mini mannequin assist, and contains chat references for higher context, the corporate mentioned. New capabilities embody in-terminal VCS (model management system) battle decision and customizable prompts for unit assessments and documentation.
For the JetBrains household of IDEs, a brand new UI is now the default for all customers. The extra streamlined UI was created to cut back visible complexity, present easy accessibility to important options, and progressively disclose complicated performance as wanted. JetBrains’ basic UI remains to be obtainable as a plugin. As well as, the Search In every single place dialog now permits builders to preview codebase components being searched. The JetBrains IDEs now will detect and use proxy settings configured on a developer’s machine by default.
