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February 2025

The State of PHP 2024

What's the state of PHP in 2024? Our in-depth analysis – based on the JetBrains Development Ecosystem Survey – breaks it all down, featuring insights from industry experts Taylor Otwell, Zuzana Kunckova, Nuno Maduro, and Brent Roose.

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YouTrack Introduces
a New Design

Welcome a bold new design to help you navigate YouTrack faster! Meet the new left-hand navigation panel, a redesigned Issues page, faster intuitive search, and more. This YouTrack update also brings improvements to Helpdesk and various other changes.

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Learn more  →

LLM Course –
Build a Semantic Book Recommender

Want to get started with LLMs but don’t know where to begin? Dr. Jodie Burchell breaks it down, showing how working with LLMs is more approachable than you might think. Learn how to build a book recommender step by step.

Watch on YouTube  →

Tech and Trends

Open Source Survey by GitHub: It’s been 7 years since the last one!

State of AI by Vellum: Learn what companies are planning to do with AI in 2025 from this beautifully designed report.

Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters by Mathias Biilmann: See the importance of tools’ and frameworks’ accessibility to LLMs.

Community News

Learn Programming on LinkedIn With JetBrains – Learn Java and earn the Java Foundations Professional Certificate on LinkedIn Learning.

New YouTrack Apps: Diagram Editor, Worklog Controller, and More – Discover free apps that create entirely new pages in YouTrack! Visualize processes with Diagram Editor or track time with Worklog Controller – all from custom pages added to the YouTrack left-hand panel. Other new apps let you visualize projects with hierarchical issue graphs, export task content as PDF files, and more.

State of Software Quality 2024 Report – Discover data and insights from over 800 developers on the state of software quality and how the emphasis on quality shifts as businesses grow.

Ktor 3.1.0 is here – This release includes improvements to server-sent events (SSE), documentation enhancements, WebAssembly (Wasm) support, dependency injection design updates, and some initial steps toward gRPC integration.

The Kotlin Foundation Annual Report 2024 – Check out the Kotlin Foundation 2024 Annual Report for an overview of last year's milestones for Kotlin and the Kotlin Foundation and to see the upcoming plans for the ecosystem.

Official Django MongoDB Backend Now Available in Public Preview

Django 5.2 beta 1 released

The JetBrains Platform Gets a New Community Space

Product Updates

uv Now in PyCharm! – Watch this short overview by Paul Everitt on YouTube.

AI Assistant expands with cutting-edge models – We’ve added new models to offer an even more adaptable and personalized experience with AI Assistant. Starting from version 2024.3.2 of JetBrains IDEs, you’ll have access to Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 and Haiku 3.5, OpenAI’s o1, o1-mini, and o3-mini, and local LLM support via LM Studio.

Qodana 2024.2 Release Highlights – The Qodana team has a fresh release with big improvements for quality-focused developers, like hard-coded password detection and enhancements to the Android linter!

Python Developer Advocate – Will Vincent. Will from LearnDjango.com joins JetBrains!

Learning Materials

Django Specials

  • Which Is the Best Python Web Framework: Django, Flask, or FastAPI?
  • The Ultimate Guide to Django Templates
  • An Introduction to Django Views

CDEs Aren’t Just for Developers – Learn how cloud development environments (CDEs) can change the game for QA professionals, tech writers, and designers in our latest blog post!

Automate Your React App Deployment With TeamCity – In this tutorial, you'll learn how to configure TeamCity to deploy a React app from a GitHub repository to an Amazon S3 bucket.

First Steps in Game Development With Rust and Bevy – In this blog post, we'll try to give you enough knowledge to kick off your journey in game development with the Rust programming language, the Bevy game engine, and RustRover, a dedicated JetBrains IDE for Rust developers.

Short Kotlin Reads

Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Fresh Picks to Begin 2025

OpenAI vs. DeepSeek: Which AI Understands Kotlin Better?

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