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> For some reason, some people are very reluctant to pay for tools, even though they use them every day in their job. I used to pay Jetbrains annually, out of
by sangnoir 4y ago
> For some reason, some people are very reluctant to pay for tools, even though they use them every day in their job.
I used to pay Jetbrains annually, out of my own pocket. I continued paying fir a personal license even after my employer bought me another license. Jetbrains then made a stupid, greedy decision[1] (and walked or back within days), but I was done with them and canceled my subscription.
Since then, my experience/growth, languages tech stacks and codebases have connived to make Jetbrains superior discoverability moot (not using Java!), I found out other IDEs are good enough for me.
1. Some years back, they decided on an IDE-as-a-service path where they were going to brick your IDE the day your subscription lapsed. The fact that they thought this was acceptable and announced it means they cannot be trusted, IMO.
- lemming 4y agoSome years back, they decided on an IDE-as-a-service path where they were going to brick your IDE the day your subscription lapsed. No they didn't. This is a total mischaracterisation of how JB's subscription works.
- mardifoufs 4y agoI think they did, but then walked back and announced that you will just fallback to the previous version of whatever IDE you were subscribed to if you cancel the subscription. I think the situation caused quite a backlash when they announced the original plans.
- sangnoir 4y agoI clearly mentioned they walked back the decision within days of the initial announcement. I don't understand how you could possibly have read my comment as describing their current licensing practices, with the tenses I was using. You can go read up on the disastrous announcement and the followup at https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/03/introducing-jetbrains-toolbox/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/03/introducing-jetbr...
- lemming 4y agoFair enough - I guess we will have to agree to disagree on whether that warrants never trusting them again.
- ihateolives 4y ago> I found out other IDEs are good enough for me. IDEs as in plural, like several IDEs? What IDEs are you using now? I'm yet to find something that is as good for several languages as Idea Ultimate? Yes, for some languages Vscode plugin is superior, but overall as a polyglot I find Idea experience the best all things considered.