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Not so sure about that. JetBrains has excellent products. So, sure, people can flock to other tools, but they aren't necessarily better tools. I have gotten so

by atonse 11y ago

Not so sure about that. JetBrains has excellent products. So, sure, people can flock to other tools, but they aren't necessarily better tools. I have gotten so used to using ReSharper, I'm probably 30% less productive without it.

epalmer 11y ago
I use IntelliJ, phpStorm and pyCharm all on a regular business. But I work for a university and just assume that the subscriptions won't lapse. That may be a bad assumption given that I control the departments budget and it would come out of my allocations if the cost go up. Mixed feelings on this change. But I really like the three products I use and will continue to use them.
- dagw 11y ago
  If you regularly use/upgrade lots of their products then this new scheme should work out cheaper. The people who potentially lose out are the people who only used one of their cheaper products and people who go several years without upgrading.
  - danieldk 11y ago
    Or, if you are on their flagship product (IntelliJ IDEA). Sure, you save a whopping 10 Euro per year. But suddenly, you have a subscription rather than owning a perpetual license. Sounds like a bad deal.
- LoneWolf 11y ago
  If you work for an university you should probably be able to use the education license, which is free.
  - epalmer 11y ago
    Not free for internal use just for classroom. Discounted and a pain to get them to give us the discount.
mariusmg 11y ago
I wonder how you actually got to that % number.....
- atonse 11y ago
  I took the base 2 quotient of the Bear Claw Constant and divided by the number of Winter Solstices since the age of the Pharaohs. :)
atonse 11y ago
I just have to add, I just tried to install ReSharper 8.1 in VS 2015 (since I bought 8.1 last year), and it doesn't work. So yeah, JetBrains is already doing these Jackass-like slimy tactics with their perpetual licensing, when there isn't really any reason why they should restrict it to VS 2013. It looks like even when you purchase a ReSharper license, the software will work for about a year. So subscriptions aren't that much worse.

by atonse 11y ago

epalmer 11y ago

I use IntelliJ, phpStorm and pyCharm all on a regular business. But I work for a university and just assume that the subscriptions won't lapse. That may be a bad assumption given that I control the departments budget and it would come out of my allocations if the cost go up. Mixed feelings on this change. But I really like the three products I use and will continue to use them.

dagw 11y ago
If you regularly use/upgrade lots of their products then this new scheme should work out cheaper. The people who potentially lose out are the people who only used one of their cheaper products and people who go several years without upgrading.
- danieldk 11y ago
  Or, if you are on their flagship product (IntelliJ IDEA). Sure, you save a whopping 10 Euro per year. But suddenly, you have a subscription rather than owning a perpetual license. Sounds like a bad deal.
LoneWolf 11y ago
If you work for an university you should probably be able to use the education license, which is free.
- epalmer 11y ago
  Not free for internal use just for classroom. Discounted and a pain to get them to give us the discount.

mariusmg 11y ago

I wonder how you actually got to that % number.....

atonse 11y ago
I took the base 2 quotient of the Bear Claw Constant and divided by the number of Winter Solstices since the age of the Pharaohs. :)

atonse 11y ago

I just have to add, I just tried to install ReSharper 8.1 in VS 2015 (since I bought 8.1 last year), and it doesn't work. So yeah, JetBrains is already doing these Jackass-like slimy tactics with their perpetual licensing, when there isn't really any reason why they should restrict it to VS 2013. It looks like even when you purchase a ReSharper license, the software will work for about a year. So subscriptions aren't that much worse.