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I always laugh at their ads/sponsorships on YouTube videos. I am sure Altium Designer is great, but there is no way you can afford it if you don't have signifi
by jrockway 3y ago
I always laugh at their ads/sponsorships on YouTube videos. I am sure Altium Designer is great, but there is no way you can afford it if you don't have significant income directly derived from the things that it saves time with.
The shit that other engineering fields go through to practice their craft is always depressing. If you're a mechanical engineer, half your salary is Solidworks. Electronics engineer, Altium. Software engineer? Everything is free. Occasionally someone shows up with a fancy IDE and wants $75 a year for it, and that's as high as it goes. Weird stuff.
- j16sdiz 3y agoDepends on how good the alternative are, $75 can easily be justified. IntelliJ was far more productive than its peer in its first 5 years or so
- zem 3y agoback in 2004 I remember coming across "understand for c++", which cost something like $1000/seat but which was absolutely the best thing I have seen for navigating and working with a large inherited codebase.
- uxp100 3y agoUnderstand is still around, and probably still that expensive. I’m not aware of a better tool, but it has its weaknesses. Often we would make understand-only changes to help it “see” better, since we were taking diagrams straight from Understand and pasting them into our paperwork.