I saw this
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/13263682579346/comments/14853063511058 today which mentions how third party plugins will need to have a separate custom plugin for Fleet and for IntelliJ.
From my experience with ide plugins, they always seem to be slow to stay up to date, and always seem to lack maintainers, even for very popular libraries. This is in no way a criticism towards those folks, I understand how it's often one of the last things that take priority over maintaining the library itself.
With that said, I can't help but think that having a separate plugin required for Fleet will just mean that most of them will simply not be able to put in the time to make it happen. Or if they do, will have an even harder time maintaining it.
What are your thoughts regarding this in general? Is the hope perhaps that the newly built from the ground up plugin support for Fleet will be simpler therefore maintainers will have an easier time? Perhaps Jetbrains folks can help with migrating some of the most critical/integral ones for the community? Plugins like ktlint and square/SQLDelight come to mind as examples of very important ones for a lot of people.
If there was any other discussion around this before I'd love to see it, so please do link it here.