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On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily developing software for medical equipment. Twenty years ago, he developed a deep professional interest in…
We've just released AI Assistant for IntelliJ IDEA, which can help you complete many tasks in the IDE, such as explaining code, generating commits, and assisting with writing code. The AI Assistant plugin is powered by the JetBrains AI Service, which uses different large language models (LLMs) under…
We have Java Dataflow Analysis (DFA), which is able to derive facts about your program: possible exceptions, conditions that are always true/always false, and more. It performs an abstract interpretation of the source code, allowing it to gather information about the code execution before the code i…
A while ago, I was studying the output of IntelliJ IDEA’s static analyzer for Java code and came across an interesting case. Since the code fragment was not open source, I’ve anonymized it and removed the external dependencies. Let's just say it looked something like this: private static List proce…
IntelliJ IDEA ships with thousands of Java code inspections. Most of them work like very advanced regular expressions: they look for specific patterns in the code which look like typos, are not very performant, confusing, or overly verbose. However one of them is not of that kind. Its name is “Const…
