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Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio and also Jetbrains wants a word with you. Personally I honestly prefer - LibreOffice (much better for getting stylin
by eitland 4y ago
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio and also Jetbrains wants a word with you.
Personally I honestly prefer
- LibreOffice (much better for getting styling consistent last I checked + not spreadsheet is not as obsessed with mangling everything into an American date
- VS Code (less overhead, more ergonomic and seriously: who develops things that needs old Visual Studio these days who hasn't done so for years?)
- NetBeans (yes, I use Jetbrains but only because I have to use Kotlin. NetBeans just works and the shortcuts makes sense to me.)
but that doesn't prevent the above mentioned products from earning lots of (hopefully) well deserved money.
- pletnes 4y agoPycharm and VS both have free / hobby versions that is, arguably, of high quality.
- kazinator 4y ago> Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio and also Jetbrains wants a word with you. These days I use LibreOffice on Windows (though very rarely). Microsoft Office isn't free and doesn't come preinstalled, so screw that. Microsoft Studio has free versions. I have three versions of it on various hard drives; all were free, and with all I was able to produce a program and ship it royalty-free.
- eduction 4y agoBut to stay on point, you were arguing against a $500 tool because "nobody" would learn it and there would be "no third-party ecosystem" - that's emphatically not true for the tools above, regardless of your personal preferences.
- kazinator 4y agoNone of these tools are programming languages or mainly programming languages, except Visual Studio, which you can easily use free. The point isn't that nobody pays for any kind of software. I mean, we could whip out enterprise software as an example. "Hey, the company I work for pays 700K per year for SAP support; whatddya mean $500 will kill a programming language tool?"