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Also, my Jetbrains IDEs (mostly use Webstorm and RubyMine). As an individual, I pay $173/year for their all products pack after a 40%loyalty discount. It's an i

Also, my Jetbrains IDEs (mostly use Webstorm and RubyMine). As an individual, I pay $173/year for their all products pack after a 40%loyalty discount. It's an incredible productivity boost over VScode and I'm quite happy to pay for it.

rirze 2y ago
What is your working stack like?
- solardev 2y ago
  I work in a support role, so most often just various frontend web frameworks that our customers use (Next, Astro, Svelte, etc.). Occasionally basic node scripts. Rarely, I also interact with dev instances of our backend in Ruby inside Docker containers. In the past, at other jobs, we've had Java backends (IntelliJ), PHP (PHPStorm), etc. They have a standalone IDEs for many specific languages, or IntellIJ Ultimate (the Java one) can also handle a bunch of other languages via official language handler plugins. But what makes the IDE truly awesome isn't just the basic language support (which VScode also has) but extensive refactoring, built in visual git and a great three-way diff engine, built-in database browser and table viewer and query editor and analyzer, visual diagrammers, test frameworks, debugger, various services and monitors... too much to list. A lot of those things are available in VScode too, but only through plugins of various quality and pricing. It's all built into Jetbrains, in one subscription. And if you ever stop a subscription, you keep the last licensed version you paid for forever (just without further upgrades). And you get a 40% loyalty discount if you subscribe as an individual after a year or two (forget exactly how long). It's just incredibly helpful software at a very fair price point.
binary_slinger 2y ago
what is one great thing do you get that vscode doesn't provide?
- decide1000 2y ago
  It's the whole ecosystem. VScode is nice for coding. Jetbrains is great for engineering.

rirze 2y ago

What is your working stack like?

solardev 2y ago
I work in a support role, so most often just various frontend web frameworks that our customers use (Next, Astro, Svelte, etc.). Occasionally basic node scripts. Rarely, I also interact with dev instances of our backend in Ruby inside Docker containers. In the past, at other jobs, we've had Java backends (IntelliJ), PHP (PHPStorm), etc. They have a standalone IDEs for many specific languages, or IntellIJ Ultimate (the Java one) can also handle a bunch of other languages via official language handler plugins. But what makes the IDE truly awesome isn't just the basic language support (which VScode also has) but extensive refactoring, built in visual git and a great three-way diff engine, built-in database browser and table viewer and query editor and analyzer, visual diagrammers, test frameworks, debugger, various services and monitors... too much to list. A lot of those things are available in VScode too, but only through plugins of various quality and pricing. It's all built into Jetbrains, in one subscription. And if you ever stop a subscription, you keep the last licensed version you paid for forever (just without further upgrades). And you get a 40% loyalty discount if you subscribe as an individual after a year or two (forget exactly how long). It's just incredibly helpful software at a very fair price point.

binary_slinger 2y ago

what is one great thing do you get that vscode doesn't provide?

decide1000 2y ago
It's the whole ecosystem. VScode is nice for coding. Jetbrains is great for engineering.