ohlaph comments on What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (30 children)

Jetbrains Intellij IDEA Ultimate. 100% worth the price.

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[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

As a former Eclipse user I can vouch for this as well.

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

IntelliJ basically killed Eclipse as a major IDE and the reaction from most of its users was "good job". It's funny how such a widely hated IDE was dominant for so long.

(Though to be fair, Eclipse helped kill itself with its UI changes)

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[–] Magnum@infosec.pub -5 points 10 months ago (27 children)

Haha no

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[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (26 children)

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[+] Magnum@infosec.pub -10 points 10 months ago (25 children)

Why should I pay a thousand bucks a year for it? I mean have you heard of emacs and neovim?

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Perhaps purchasing as a company. For me as a person the everything pack is under $300/year. And repeat subscriptions get a discount, so I'll pay even less for it next year.

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[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (12 children)

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[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Their subscription model is nice. You will always own the last version you got with your subscription. You just won't get new versions until you resub.

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[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because if you keep the subscription, the payment is lower (don't remember, how much lower, half or less), and versions come more often than once a year

It might make sense if you only re-subscribe if something really big changes, which is almost never, I guess

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[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Originally I paid because I wanted to support the product, now the product is not as great as it used to be, so maybe there is none

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[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 point 10 months ago

I don't actually know.

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

In general, I agree. However it's pretty much better than all of the free offerings and better than many of the more expensive ones.

There aren't any can't live without features. There are several very nice to have on so.

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[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It isn't just an editor, though. But you do you. ☺️

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[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Having paid for Visual Studio in the past at $1500, and the requisite MSDN subscription at $2000/year so that I could have useful help files, the actually $600 over three years for all of JetBrains' software is a steal. Subscriptions aren't new, they're just more prevalent now.

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