[brentroose]

Out of curiosity: do you know why they pay for it themselves instead of asking their company to do so?

[bayindirh]

Because not all "developers" are developers in their day jobs. I'm personally a sysadmin most of the time, and I do my own R&D (mostly academic, but novel).

Some tools I like are not free, and I buy licenses by myself.

[kyriakos]

Cause many developers have personal projects they cant use company resources on