*>parts of remote Eastern Europe have produced excellent techs for decades..* Li...

spitfire · 2025-04-09T14:24:46 1744208686

Jetbrains is Russian. They relocated to Czech to wash their face.

mistrial9 · 2025-04-09T14:39:37 1744209577

I honestly do not know about this -- wasn't it based in Kiev at first?

spitfire · 2025-04-09T16:43:21 1744217001

According to Wikipedia “ JetBrains, initially called IntelliJ Software,[9][10] was founded in 2000 in Prague by three Russian software developers:”

My understanding is that they had the Czech business location with Russian developers so they had a clean public face.

I’d believe you if you insisted on Kiev based too, I don’t know anything first hand.

dkarl · 2025-04-09T13:58:49 1744207129

I've worked with several excellent Ukrainian developers, but in each case they were working for consulting firms in other Eastern European countries.

oblio · 2025-04-09T14:03:29 1744207409

> have produced excellent tech <<talent>> for decades..

There you go, hope it makes more sense for you.

FirmwareBurner · 2025-04-09T14:05:41 1744207541

Understandable, thanks.

mistrial9 · 2025-04-09T13:53:41 1744206821

Leonid Radvinsky, Ruja Ignatova ?

FirmwareBurner · 2025-04-09T13:57:32 1744207052

What part of "tech products of Ukraine" was unclear?

throwaway48476 · 2025-04-09T19:50:57 1744228257

An Israeli and a Bulgarian gypsy?