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The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust.



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OpenIDEA brings the IntelliJ IDEA way of working — its keymap, its tool windows,
its search-everything habits — to a native app with a Rust core.

Editor, code insight, debugger, Git, terminal, database and HTTP clients,
for 60+ languages. Builds for macOS, Windows and Linux. On Windows, if you'd
rather skip the installer, each release also ships a portable zip — unpack it
and run openidea.exe.

 Benchmark

Opening freqtrade (Python, ~770 files)
with warm caches, median of 5 runs:

|                             | OpenIDEA          | IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.3 |
| --------------------------- | ----------------- | ---------------------- |
| Window with the project     | 0.9 s         | 3.1 s                  |
| Ready (CPU settled)         | 1.1 s         | 13.2 s                 |
| Memory (USS, all processes) | 169 MB        | 2011 MB                |
| CPU time until ready        | 2.4 s         | 47.9 s                 |
| Idle CPU                    | 4 % of a core | 7 % of a core          |
| Quit                        | 0.3 s         | 5.9 s                  |

A release build of OpenIDEA from main and IDEA with default settings and plugins, on
Windows 11, 32-core AMD, 62 GB RAM.
IDEA analyses Python more deeply, so "ready" doesn't mean the same work on
both sides. Both are measured from the outside, the same way: see
perf/compare to run it on your machine and projects.

 Plugins

Plugins add actions, completion, quick fixes, tool windows, custom editors,
themes, file icons and languages. They run as sandboxed WebAssembly components;
themes, icon themes and languages need no code at all.

Install them from Settings › Plugins, or start your own with
openidea-plugin new — see Writing OpenIDEA plugins and
the official plugins. The plugin API is still a preview.

 Community

- Discord — questions, feedback and release news.
- WeChat group — scan to join:

  

 Contributors


  


 License

Apache 2.0. Bundled third-party assets are listed in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.

Arduino sketches (.ino) have C++ syntax highlighting and code intelligence via Arduino
Language Server. For completion, signature help, hover and definition navigation, install
Arduino IDE 2 and the board's core. Configure the server command and arguments in
Settings  Languages & Frameworks  Language Servers, or set tool paths in settings.toml
using languages.arduino.cli, languages.arduino.clangd, languages.arduino.languageServer
and languages.arduino.cliConfig. OpenIDEA
automatically discovers the IDE's Arduino CLI, clangd and Arduino Language Server on
Windows, macOS and Linux; board FQBN is read from sketch.yaml or
languages.arduino.fqbn in settings.toml.

Not affiliated with JetBrains. IntelliJ IDEA is a trademark of JetBrains s.r.o.

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Latest release

OpenIDEA 0.1.39 adds dev containers, an editable database result grid, Tomcat Server run configurations, a Project Structure dialog, JetBrains settings import and a rebuilt agent conversation view, and ships Plugin API 1.3.

 Download

| Architecture | Windows | macOS | Linux |
|---|---|---|---|
| x86-64 (64-bit) | EXE   MSI   Portable | Intel | AppImage   DEB   RPM |
| AArch64 (ARM64) | EXE   MSI   Portable | Apple Silicon | AppImage   DEB   RPM |

Remote development: openidea-server for Linux x86-64 · Linux ARM64 · macOS x86-64 · macOS ARM64, each with