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JetBrains' Writerside - A Tech Writing IDE
25/07/2024
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[JetBrains](https://www.jetbrains.com) is known for its variety of developer-focused IDEs, all based around its IntelliJ core. In recent years, they developed their own writer-focussed plugin, [Grazie](https://www.jetbrains.com/grazie/), for handling grammar and style guidance, [Writerside](https://www.jetbrains.com/writerside/) for a wide variety of tech writing tasks, and more recently, an AI assistant for writers. The company has also helped with community-maintained plugins such as those for [markdown](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/markdown.html) and [asciidoc](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7391-asciidoc). But then, a year...