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86 points by rdemmer 14y ago

DigitalSea 14y ago
Before I started using Sublime Text Editor for everything, PHPStorm was my go-to GUI for not only PHP coding but everything else as well, an awesome company and a great cause. I highly recommend their tools, they also have pretty good support and offer free licences to educational institutes and open source projects.
- argonaut 14y ago
  Would you recommend Sublime Text 2 over PHPStorm/Webstorm for someone only coding in HTML/CSS/JS?
  - LordIllidan 14y ago
    Why don't you try out their 30 day trial? I wouldn't get PHPStorm if you're not using PHP (unless you want to be future proof in case you do end up using it.) Check out the webstorm features here: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html
    - orillian 14y ago
      I have both. I really like the fact that the IDE's are so segregated. I find IDEA or Netbeans or Eclipse to have to much stuff. I use webStorm for javascript only projects and phpStorm when I'm doing php development. I configure each IDE to work how I like with the language of choice and all is good in the world.
  - DigitalSea 14y ago
    If you are primarily working with just PHP (well most of the time), PHPStorm is the best choice. It has some of the best debugging features you'll ever encounter (I originally came from Eclipse) and the Syntax highlighting is second to none. The great thing about what PHPStorm also does is you can see where everything is, hovering over a function or anything documented for that matter will show the documentation for said function. For Wordpress development especially it's really useful. The reason I moved to Sublime is I no longer primarily work with just PHP any more. Javascript, HTML, Python, Ruby, Node.js and CSS are some of the languages I find myself in. Sublime lacks a lot of nice features that PHPStorm has and definitely is a bit more manual in some aspects, I do miss the intelligent syntax highlighting and checking (warning you if you forgot to close a if statement and whatnot).
- LordIllidan 14y ago
  Ha, I went the opposite route. I was using Sublime Text Editor for everything, switched to PHPStorm (I do a lot of drupal/wordpress development) I do miss some of sublime text's features but the integrated debugger tools and other awesome features... I can't go back
- taude 14y ago
  Yeah, I went the opposite too, from SBT to PyCharm (their Python optimized IDE that has everything Web Storm + first class Python support). I work with a lot of JavaScript (specifically Angular.JS) from this setup and can't say enough good things. A nice side-benefit is that you can also work Node.JS in this version after installing the plugin. EDIT: I still use SBT2 for looking at source code, especially projects cloned from github for learning, etc...but my main work projects are now in PyCharm.
davidjgraph 14y ago
Has your online store had a little "refactoring" since the last promo? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947146
- rdemmer 14y ago
  fingers crossed!
- rplnt 14y ago
  Well, it was much better deal (50% off is quite common with jetbrains afaik) and most importantly lasted only 24 hours. I bought a PyCharm license, just hoping I will use it. So far I've played with it for about 2 hours total. But there's still hope...
highace 14y ago
I missed out on IntelliJ last time because of the downtime, but not this time!
- hackerboos 14y ago
  The 'end of the world' sale was pretty heavily discounted if I remember correctly. Maybe they actually believed it...
  - rdemmer 14y ago
    Yep. The previous "end of the world" sale was 75% off and lasted 24 hours only.
- moondowner 14y ago
  Bought IDEA during the Doomsday Sale, first time I tried was the 'big' downtime and failed, and then waited several hours and tried again. One of the best purchases I've done!
  - DomBlack 14y ago
    I was two weeks anyway from buying it at full price when that sale happened. I can't recommend IntelliJ enough, second only to Visual Studio. Nothing in the Java world beats it, plus all the framework and other language support it has is just great!
- scottlilly 14y ago
  I also picked up IntelliJ this time around. Even though I mostly do .Net development, it's too good an offer to pass up. This gives me an excuse to translate some of my libraries to Java.
jamespo 14y ago
I've been using intellij with the python plugin for a project (basically the same as pycharm). Have always been a customized emacs user before now (using JEDI etc) but intellij does have some nice features - if not quite so snappy.
wanderr 14y ago
PHPStorm is great for php and javascript development, highly recommended! If their corporate licensing prices were more startup friendly, I'd get a copy for everyone on my team.
- chii 14y ago
  its pretty startup friendly at $59 a license per user (assuming you don't buy the site license?)
- hhariri 14y ago
  We have a program for start-ups. Contact sales@jetbrains.com and they can inform you.
zedr 14y ago
I switched from Eclipse to PyCharm last year and I am very happy with it. I was looking into IntelliJ to have a more polyglot environment. Could anyone tell me if I can get all the features found in PyCharm (.e.g wonderful Django support) if I switch to IntelliJ and then install the Python plugin?
- justafucker 14y ago
  the python plugin for intellij adds similar level of code assistance (including django support) as pycharm. the only difference is in releases dates. intellij idea gets all new features with a small delay (and vice versa pycharm gets some new features with a small delay after intellij release).
1nvader 14y ago
No discount on product upgrades for existing customers ;(
Stranger2013 14y ago
You only gave 50% off ONE product so that you could mention it in the title. Not cool.
- 1nvader 14y ago
  "Get up to 50% OFF" - this doesn't mean you get 50% on all products. Anyway, not cool since only new customers get an discount.
tomku 14y ago
Since this comes up every time there's a Jetbrains sale, here's the rundown on how the products relate to each other. First, the easy ones. ReSharper, dotTrace and dotCover are all independent products that don't really overlap with the ones I'm about to talk about. The "Core" doesn't exist as a product, but it's all the things that are product-independent and aren't provided by plugins like the editor, HTML/CSS/JS editing support, debugger, theming, etc. I'm mentioning it because each IDE ends up with a slightly different version of the Core based on when it was released, which means that using IntelliJ with the Python plugin might not have all the features of PyCharm if PyCharm got a major version update more recently than IntelliJ. WebStorm (JS/HTML/CSS IDE) has the core functionality plus Node.js plugins. You can install other plugins, but only a limited subset. AppCode (Obj-C IDE) has the core functionality plus product-specific Obj-C plugins that you can't install in any of the other IDEs. AppCode only shares a few plugins with other IDEs, like the Vim emulation. RubyMine, PhpStorm and PyCharm have the core functionality plus language/platform-specific plugins for Ruby, PHP and Python respectively. You can install other plugins, but nothing that would turn one of these into the other, for example installing the PHP plugin in PyCharm. IntelliJ IDEA has the core functionality plus a huge variety of Java plugins. It can also use the language-specific plugins from WebStorm, RubyMine, PhpStorm and PyCharm as well as others that are downloadable. It can install almost all of the plugins that are supported on the platform - the only exception I'm aware of is Obj-C support. Hope that answers some questions.
- xtrumanx 14y ago
  Is there a point in buying WebStorm if I purchase IDEA? I've been using WebStorm lately and have been considering purchasing it but I'm also learning Scala on the side and would also benefit from IDEA. If IDEA can handle NodeJS and TypeScript is there a point to purchasing WebStorm as well?
  - justafucker 14y ago
    Please contact sales@jetbrains.com. If you buy IntelliJ IDEA I hope sales can help you with getting WebStorm for free (or with a discount). Scala support is part of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (which is free), but IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate has additional nice features.
specialist 14y ago
I keep my personal IntelliJ license up to date. Mostly because I like choice and competition. I would be sad if jetbrains didn't exist. I use work-provided IntelliJ for the day gig. It's okay. I use Eclipse for my personal projects. Momentum mostly, been using it since the alphas. But I do greatly prefer the single problem(s) view. And the InstaSearch plugin rocks (Eclipse's stock search blows). I use SublimeText for most non source code editing.
cageface 14y ago
I live in IntelliJ and AppCode. I'm quite certain that no other software has given me the same bang for the buck. My work would be significantly less pleasant if I had to use XCode and Eclipse instead.
- ttflee 14y ago
  Recently, I use AppCode to do version control stuff. Xcode always fails to cooperate with the SVN server at workplace.
mbell 14y ago
I really like JetBrain's stuff, I use it every day. That said, one annoyance with it: When you have a personal license, it does a network check to ensure that the license is only in use on one machine on the LAN and locks out other instances popping up a 'reactivation' dialog in them. The check is fine and reasonable, I just wish it worked a different way as it messes with my workflow on a regular basis. I work primarily from home and like switching between my laptop and my desktop regularly. I may use my laptop outside when its nice or just sit on the couch for a change in position then sit my desktop for awhile or maybe I need more horsepower or screen space than a macbook air can provide. I generally just like to change things up periodically. The fact that it completely locks out the other IDE almost instantly can get really annoying. I sync code through github but if I forget to sync something, I then play whack-a-mole with the dialogs to get back to work. Another annoying thing is when I close my laptop then move to my desktop but want to check on something on the laptop completely unrelated and as soon as I open the lid, boom desktop is locked out. I really wish it had some sort of timeout, read only mode or just allowed 2 instances as I can't imagine my situation is all that unique.
- easytiger 14y ago
  i vaguely recall something about being allowed three instances per lan.. i'll dig out the email from thei customer service people when i get home
- _JamesA_ 14y ago
  I have the same issue. I reluctantly purchased two personal licenses to get around the issue. Unfortunately their systems aren't set up to deal with multiple personal licenses and it requires a call to their sales department every time I renew. Now I am bouncing among 3 machines and getting frustrated again but buying a third license just to get rid of the message is not an option. I am not 'using' the instances simultaneously but it's incredibly inconvenient to keep opening and closing the IDE as I change from one machine to another. I understand the need to protect their source of revenue but there really needs to be a better solution than this.
  - orillian 14y ago
socialist_coder 14y ago
I wish they had a C# IDE. I'm 100% OSX with Unity3d and I have to use Monodevelop for C#. I would much prefer to use a JetBrains product.
- Stranger2013 14y ago
  Get Win + Visual Studio + ReSharper. You are seriously missing out. Good language choice though.
  - socialist_coder 14y ago
    I like OSX =(
gmark80 14y ago
hurt. Just got my full price license.
- tomku 14y ago
  If you toss their sales department (sales@jetbrains.com) an email, they'll probably help you out. I've never had to do it myself, but they have a reputation for being very accommodating regarding buying just before sales. Edit: Just to be clear, I don't work for them, have no affiliation, etc.

86 points by rdemmer 14y ago

Before I started using Sublime Text Editor for everything, PHPStorm was my go-to GUI for not only PHP coding but everything else as well, an awesome company and a great cause. I highly recommend their tools, they also have pretty good support and offer free licences to educational institutes and open source projects.

argonaut 14y ago
Would you recommend Sublime Text 2 over PHPStorm/Webstorm for someone only coding in HTML/CSS/JS?
- LordIllidan 14y ago
  Why don't you try out their 30 day trial? I wouldn't get PHPStorm if you're not using PHP (unless you want to be future proof in case you do end up using it.) Check out the webstorm features here: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html
  - orillian 14y ago
    I have both. I really like the fact that the IDE's are so segregated. I find IDEA or Netbeans or Eclipse to have to much stuff. I use webStorm for javascript only projects and phpStorm when I'm doing php development. I configure each IDE to work how I like with the language of choice and all is good in the world.
- DigitalSea 14y ago
  If you are primarily working with just PHP (well most of the time), PHPStorm is the best choice. It has some of the best debugging features you'll ever encounter (I originally came from Eclipse) and the Syntax highlighting is second to none. The great thing about what PHPStorm also does is you can see where everything is, hovering over a function or anything documented for that matter will show the documentation for said function. For Wordpress development especially it's really useful. The reason I moved to Sublime is I no longer primarily work with just PHP any more. Javascript, HTML, Python, Ruby, Node.js and CSS are some of the languages I find myself in. Sublime lacks a lot of nice features that PHPStorm has and definitely is a bit more manual in some aspects, I do miss the intelligent syntax highlighting and checking (warning you if you forgot to close a if statement and whatnot).
LordIllidan 14y ago
Ha, I went the opposite route. I was using Sublime Text Editor for everything, switched to PHPStorm (I do a lot of drupal/wordpress development) I do miss some of sublime text's features but the integrated debugger tools and other awesome features... I can't go back
taude 14y ago
Yeah, I went the opposite too, from SBT to PyCharm (their Python optimized IDE that has everything Web Storm + first class Python support). I work with a lot of JavaScript (specifically Angular.JS) from this setup and can't say enough good things. A nice side-benefit is that you can also work Node.JS in this version after installing the plugin. EDIT: I still use SBT2 for looking at source code, especially projects cloned from github for learning, etc...but my main work projects are now in PyCharm.

davidjgraph 14y ago

Has your online store had a little "refactoring" since the last promo? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947146

rdemmer 14y ago
fingers crossed!
rplnt 14y ago
Well, it was much better deal (50% off is quite common with jetbrains afaik) and most importantly lasted only 24 hours. I bought a PyCharm license, just hoping I will use it. So far I've played with it for about 2 hours total. But there's still hope...

highace 14y ago

I missed out on IntelliJ last time because of the downtime, but not this time!

hackerboos 14y ago
The 'end of the world' sale was pretty heavily discounted if I remember correctly. Maybe they actually believed it...
- rdemmer 14y ago
  Yep. The previous "end of the world" sale was 75% off and lasted 24 hours only.
moondowner 14y ago
Bought IDEA during the Doomsday Sale, first time I tried was the 'big' downtime and failed, and then waited several hours and tried again. One of the best purchases I've done!
- DomBlack 14y ago
  I was two weeks anyway from buying it at full price when that sale happened. I can't recommend IntelliJ enough, second only to Visual Studio. Nothing in the Java world beats it, plus all the framework and other language support it has is just great!
scottlilly 14y ago
I also picked up IntelliJ this time around. Even though I mostly do .Net development, it's too good an offer to pass up. This gives me an excuse to translate some of my libraries to Java.

jamespo 14y ago

I've been using intellij with the python plugin for a project (basically the same as pycharm). Have always been a customized emacs user before now (using JEDI etc) but intellij does have some nice features - if not quite so snappy.

wanderr 14y ago

PHPStorm is great for php and javascript development, highly recommended! If their corporate licensing prices were more startup friendly, I'd get a copy for everyone on my team.

chii 14y ago
its pretty startup friendly at $59 a license per user (assuming you don't buy the site license?)
hhariri 14y ago
We have a program for start-ups. Contact sales@jetbrains.com and they can inform you.

zedr 14y ago

I switched from Eclipse to PyCharm last year and I am very happy with it. I was looking into IntelliJ to have a more polyglot environment. Could anyone tell me if I can get all the features found in PyCharm (.e.g wonderful Django support) if I switch to IntelliJ and then install the Python plugin?

justafucker 14y ago
the python plugin for intellij adds similar level of code assistance (including django support) as pycharm. the only difference is in releases dates. intellij idea gets all new features with a small delay (and vice versa pycharm gets some new features with a small delay after intellij release).

1nvader 14y ago

No discount on product upgrades for existing customers ;(

Stranger2013 14y ago

You only gave 50% off ONE product so that you could mention it in the title. Not cool.

1nvader 14y ago
"Get up to 50% OFF" - this doesn't mean you get 50% on all products. Anyway, not cool since only new customers get an discount.

tomku 14y ago

Since this comes up every time there's a Jetbrains sale, here's the rundown on how the products relate to each other. First, the easy ones. ReSharper, dotTrace and dotCover are all independent products that don't really overlap with the ones I'm about to talk about. The "Core" doesn't exist as a product, but it's all the things that are product-independent and aren't provided by plugins like the editor, HTML/CSS/JS editing support, debugger, theming, etc. I'm mentioning it because each IDE ends up with a slightly different version of the Core based on when it was released, which means that using IntelliJ with the Python plugin might not have all the features of PyCharm if PyCharm got a major version update more recently than IntelliJ. WebStorm (JS/HTML/CSS IDE) has the core functionality plus Node.js plugins. You can install other plugins, but only a limited subset. AppCode (Obj-C IDE) has the core functionality plus product-specific Obj-C plugins that you can't install in any of the other IDEs. AppCode only shares a few plugins with other IDEs, like the Vim emulation. RubyMine, PhpStorm and PyCharm have the core functionality plus language/platform-specific plugins for Ruby, PHP and Python respectively. You can install other plugins, but nothing that would turn one of these into the other, for example installing the PHP plugin in PyCharm. IntelliJ IDEA has the core functionality plus a huge variety of Java plugins. It can also use the language-specific plugins from WebStorm, RubyMine, PhpStorm and PyCharm as well as others that are downloadable. It can install almost all of the plugins that are supported on the platform - the only exception I'm aware of is Obj-C support. Hope that answers some questions.

xtrumanx 14y ago
Is there a point in buying WebStorm if I purchase IDEA? I've been using WebStorm lately and have been considering purchasing it but I'm also learning Scala on the side and would also benefit from IDEA. If IDEA can handle NodeJS and TypeScript is there a point to purchasing WebStorm as well?
- justafucker 14y ago
  Please contact sales@jetbrains.com. If you buy IntelliJ IDEA I hope sales can help you with getting WebStorm for free (or with a discount). Scala support is part of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (which is free), but IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate has additional nice features.

specialist 14y ago

I keep my personal IntelliJ license up to date. Mostly because I like choice and competition. I would be sad if jetbrains didn't exist. I use work-provided IntelliJ for the day gig. It's okay. I use Eclipse for my personal projects. Momentum mostly, been using it since the alphas. But I do greatly prefer the single problem(s) view. And the InstaSearch plugin rocks (Eclipse's stock search blows). I use SublimeText for most non source code editing.

cageface 14y ago

I live in IntelliJ and AppCode. I'm quite certain that no other software has given me the same bang for the buck. My work would be significantly less pleasant if I had to use XCode and Eclipse instead.

ttflee 14y ago
Recently, I use AppCode to do version control stuff. Xcode always fails to cooperate with the SVN server at workplace.

mbell 14y ago

I really like JetBrain's stuff, I use it every day. That said, one annoyance with it: When you have a personal license, it does a network check to ensure that the license is only in use on one machine on the LAN and locks out other instances popping up a 'reactivation' dialog in them. The check is fine and reasonable, I just wish it worked a different way as it messes with my workflow on a regular basis. I work primarily from home and like switching between my laptop and my desktop regularly. I may use my laptop outside when its nice or just sit on the couch for a change in position then sit my desktop for awhile or maybe I need more horsepower or screen space than a macbook air can provide. I generally just like to change things up periodically. The fact that it completely locks out the other IDE almost instantly can get really annoying. I sync code through github but if I forget to sync something, I then play whack-a-mole with the dialogs to get back to work. Another annoying thing is when I close my laptop then move to my desktop but want to check on something on the laptop completely unrelated and as soon as I open the lid, boom desktop is locked out. I really wish it had some sort of timeout, read only mode or just allowed 2 instances as I can't imagine my situation is all that unique.

easytiger 14y ago
i vaguely recall something about being allowed three instances per lan.. i'll dig out the email from thei customer service people when i get home
_JamesA_ 14y ago
I have the same issue. I reluctantly purchased two personal licenses to get around the issue. Unfortunately their systems aren't set up to deal with multiple personal licenses and it requires a call to their sales department every time I renew. Now I am bouncing among 3 machines and getting frustrated again but buying a third license just to get rid of the message is not an option. I am not 'using' the instances simultaneously but it's incredibly inconvenient to keep opening and closing the IDE as I change from one machine to another. I understand the need to protect their source of revenue but there really needs to be a better solution than this.
- orillian 14y ago

socialist_coder 14y ago

I wish they had a C# IDE. I'm 100% OSX with Unity3d and I have to use Monodevelop for C#. I would much prefer to use a JetBrains product.

Stranger2013 14y ago
Get Win + Visual Studio + ReSharper. You are seriously missing out. Good language choice though.
- socialist_coder 14y ago
  I like OSX =(

gmark80 14y ago

hurt. Just got my full price license.

tomku 14y ago
If you toss their sales department (sales@jetbrains.com) an email, they'll probably help you out. I've never had to do it myself, but they have a reputation for being very accommodating regarding buying just before sales. Edit: Just to be clear, I don't work for them, have no affiliation, etc.