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Why is JetBrains a rare success compared to others?
by kyawzazaw 6y ago
Why is JetBrains a rare success compared to others?
- bdcravens 6y agoJetBrains seems to do a good job sticking with the core audience of in-the-trenches coders, instead of trying to expand in a way that feels corporatey and enterprisey.
- libria 6y agoI suppose it's hard to sell tools to people whose job it is to build tools, e.g. John Resig could never have sold jQuery because someone would have just written a feature compatible version for free. (edit, well the source is visible so that might be a bad example) One thing coders do poorly is UX. Most things I’ve seen that are UX heavy done right are commercial and light-years ahead of open-source versions.
- thrower123 6y agoMostly because they are really, really good, and they don't ask much for it. I think I pay them less than $150 for a yearly subscription to their entire toolset, which is a price point that makes it stupid not to buy them. ReSharper is well worth a cup of coffee a week, by itself, and then there is DataGrip, WebStorm, IntelliJ, profilers, decompilers, and other stuff thrown in.
- yakz 6y agoI also enjoy their universal subscription but I recommend trying Rider if you like ReSharper. Outside of small solutions, I find that ReSharper requires more patience than I can muster. The type-and-wait is significantly worse than I remember from classic Mac all-in-ones from the early/mid 90s.