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PHPStorm is one of the best things that ever happened to PHP. Not sure if they still do but JetBrains used to offer its IDEs for free to open source developers

• hulahoof 10y ago
  I just checked, they still do for core members of open source projects: https://www.jetbrains.com/buy/opensource/ https://www.jetbrains.com/buy/opensource/
  • chx 10y ago
    I qualify for open source PHPStorm three times at least (Drupal 7, Drupal 8, PHP documentation) and yet, I love PHPStorm enough to buy it :)
    • kyriakos 10y ago
      Indeed it's one of those applications that are constantly updated adding features we need before we realise we did. Well worth it.
• toxican 10y ago
  I'm not a fan of subscription-based models for software, but PHPStorm is good enough for me to ignore that. Plus it gets cheaper yearly for the first 3 years.
  • nolok 10y ago
    I agree and I was a bit disappointed at first being a long time customer, but they addressed that with the perpetual license. Also, for long term customer like me, it ended up costing less (I also got one year free when renewing, although I think that was a limited offer).
    • toxican 10y ago
      It left me kicking myself for not buying PHPStorm sooner so I could've gotten in on the perpetual license pricing. But oh well! It paid for itself pretty quickly, so I can't complain!
      • takingflac 10y ago
        When I last looked at their pricing you could keep using their version you subscription expired on you just could get any updates for it until you subscribed again, is that not the case anymore?
        • toxican 10y ago
          Not sure. I only let it expire once, but I just assumed it wouldn't work and uninstalled and went back to SublimeText (and obviously I came running back!)