An aside: I find the range of possible meanings of “modern” fascinating. In some contexts it means post-Middle Ages, in some post-Industrial Revolution, in some mid-20th century, and in many (as here) it just means now-ish. (I’m ignoring non-temporal uses of it, which are a whole other thing.) This use, in the OP, is a particularly sharp one, since the JetBrains blog explicitly means in the last 6 to 12 months.
I looked it up, and apparently the first use of “modern” (well, “modernus”, but who’s counting) to mean “now, when things are up to date, not earlier when things were old fashioned” was in the 6th century CE. [1] And even though in formal contexts modernity is long past, its colloquial use continues to drift along with us.
Anyway, gotta go tell Claude to get with the times.
I looked it up, and apparently the first use of “modern” (well, “modernus”, but who’s counting) to mean “now, when things are up to date, not earlier when things were old fashioned” was in the 6th century CE. [1] And even though in formal contexts modernity is long past, its colloquial use continues to drift along with us.
Anyway, gotta go tell Claude to get with the times.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity#Etymology