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Rider and Webstorm from JetBrains are now free for non-commercial use (blog.jetbrains.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not about cheapness, it's about consistency.

You wanna set up different dev environments and process for every single language you or someone from your team might use? Oh we need documentation and a license for IDEA when we're doing Java work, and PyCharm when we're doing Python work, and WebStorm when we're doing JavaScript work, or we just all use VSCode for everything.

I've worked on Java teams, Python Teams, JavaScript Teams, C# teams, and quite frankly, I've seen no major benefit to a dedicated IDE for that language vs just configuring VSCode plugins and CLI scripts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

We just have the ultimate license and can use all of the intellij IDEs, but you also can do everything with IDEA and some plugins. And I'm that car you still have the experience of a real IDE and not just a code editor.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lol "real IDE". Name the actual day to day feature(s) that makes it "real". Just saying "you use a little bitch IDE, i use a real IDE" is not an argument.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Much better integrated refactoring support. Much better source code integration support. Much better integrated debugging support. Much better integrated assistive (but not ai) support.

Vscode can do many things IntelliJ can, but not all, and many of them require fiddling with plugins.

Usually, JB is also faster (if your dev machine can run it, but in my experience most devs have beefy machines).