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I love to use the terminal, and I still do. But as much as I love to unfu*k my local nvim setup, I much rather pay a company to do it for me. Set up vim bindings inside jetbrains and everything comes with batteries included, along with a kick-ass debugger. While my colleagues are fighting opencode, I pointed my IDE at the correct MCP gateway and everything "just works" with more context.

Thought I'd share the data point to support jetbrains

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nurettin|1 day ago

On behalf of everyone who dislikes jetbrains business model, I would like to say: duly noted.

its-kostya|3 hours ago

I pay $179 per year for ALL their IDEs as an individual--$15 a month. Nothing compares to their C, Go, and rust IDEs. Chaining in rust make for very verbose statements, folding in jetbrains takes care of it. Took me an hour to get similar, yet still lacking, code folding in nvim with ufo. Sure, they aren't perfect. Working multi-language repos requires multiple resources hungry IDEs (but I typically just use nvim unless I am doing something very involved).

If I stop paying, I have the perpetual licence for the version at which I last paid so the "I WaNt tO owN mY SoFTWArE" crowd (which I am a part of) can choose to only pay when their current version starts lacking modern features. That's the reality of anything that you buy.

My experience is the software development landscape evolves so frequently that a yearly refresh of modern convenience features makes it a no brainer for a professional. I love to tinker, but between family and career, if I do happen to have a few hours to code I don't want to spend any of that time debugging my custom IDE. I used to, I respect those that do, but that's just not how I want to spend my time.

Plus, I am very happy to support developers and I encourage others to as well. Esp when the company isn't "branching out to sell user data, advertising."

8n4vidtmkvmk|1 day ago

What's wrong with their business model? Pay once, get a year of free updates and keep it forever. Runs locally. Want updates? Pay discounted renewal. Seems reasonable. Their AI subscription OTOH needs work. Not worth it yet with how flaky it is.