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Instead of coming up with a new project, why just they do not provide a community edition for each of their products? Currently they provide a CE edition for Py
by pknerd 4y ago
Instead of coming up with a new project, why just they do not provide a community edition for each of their products? Currently they provide a CE edition for PyCharm only?
I remember I loved the initial version of Goland a lot but found out it is not free and expired after a while, I switched back to VSCode and did not regret at all
- dbrgn 4y ago"Instead of trying to innovate, why don't they just give out their existing products for free to customers that aren't willing to pay?" Jetbrains make good products. And it's great that they're trying to explore the potential for a more lightweight editor based on their technology.
- neverartful 4y ago"Currently they provide a CE edition for PyCharm only?" If I'm not mistaken, I think they have a CE edition of IntelliJ (java) too.
- mdaniel 4y agoYes, both are Apache 2 licensed: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community#readme https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community#readme (pycharm is in the "python" subdirectory). It used to be painless to build them both, but the recently doubled down on jps and now it's hit-or-miss and a ton more complicated, but I can attest it is possible