👋 Hey Grails community! I’d love to start a discussion about IDE choices for Grails development, especially with the recent news from JetBrains. JetBrains has opened a YouTrack ticket (IDEA-379825) proposing to mark the Grails plugin as obsolete and stop bundling/maintaining it in future releases (starting around 2026.2). However, after a quick conversation with them, the Apache Grails team confirmed: → The plugin will continue to work in IntelliJ 2026.1 (due this month) → The plugin ID will stay the same → Details about where the code lives and who maintains it going forward are still being ironed out. So the future of official JetBrains support is uncertain, and this feels like a good moment to evaluate alternatives. In our team we’re currently split: • VS Code for Angular frontend • IntelliJ for Grails backend (RESTful APIs) The context-switching is getting painful. At the same time we’re seeing: • VS Code (and VS Code-based tools like Google’s Antigravity) gaining traction • Excellent VS Code support for Angular and React in many companies So the question is: Does it make sense for us to converge on a single IDE — just VS Code — for the entire stack (frontend + Grails backend)? A few points I’d really like the community’s real-world feedback on: • Is VS Code already a viable daily driver for Grails/Groovy work in 2026? Which extensions are people happily using (Groovy LSP, GSP support, Grails run/debug, code navigation, refactoring, etc.)? • Has anyone fully migrated a production Grails project to VS Code only? How painful or smooth was it? • With the plugin now in this limbo state (still works for now, but maintenance moving to community/fork), does it still make sense to stay on IntelliJ, or is this the perfect time to go all-in on VS Code for consistency across the team? • What’s the current community vision/recommendation for IDEs in Grails projects? Any strong success stories or horror stories? Would love to hear your honest experiences! 🙏 Thanks in advance! #grails #ide #vscode #groovy #C0NC33WQ0

Hi @User. Last year, I'v used VSCode and then Cursor for several months on a big Grails 6 application. Two strong limiting factors: poor Groovy support and no support for Spock tests. At then end, I returned to IntelliJ, without the Grails plugin. Much better coding experience.