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Date Published
Author
Elena Kerpeleva
Word count
315
Language
American English
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None

Summary

JetBrains hosted its second annual Plugin Developer Conference on November 5, 2025, dedicated to the development, publication, and growth of plugins for JetBrains IDEs, with all session recordings now available on YouTube. The event attracted over 1,000 viewers and featured six hours of live content, including technical deep dives, live demos, and practical talks from 10 speakers, both JetBrains experts and community developers. Highlights included sessions on creating plugins, developing language plugins, AI-powered test generation, and making plugins remote development-friendly. The conference fostered significant interaction, with over 100 live chat questions, underscoring the vibrant engagement of the plugin developer community. Future opportunities for participation in the 2026 conference were also mentioned, with a call for speakers set to open in the spring.