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by gorohoroh
3939 days ago
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Your understanding of how perpetual licenses with upgrade subscriptions work is correct. Also, you can still be pretty confident that as a language support by an IDE (PhpStorm in your case) evolves, new versions will be supported by this very IDE, and we don't have any plans to release a separate Php7Storm :) I was referring to a different kind of change where you might switch from PHP to Ruby, from C# to Java. C# and PHP are naturally not the best combination to support in the same IDE, meaning you might switch your tools as you go from language to language. |
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But you can also be confident that 5 years in the future, if you stop paying you will have only 1 choice:
To use the version that supported PHP 7, a deprecated, unsecure and phased out version (or at least, that's what I expect from PHP 7 by the year 2020).
In the past you had the peace of mind that you could continue using the version that supported PHP <current - 1> if you stopped paying.
That peace of mind was one of the most important features of PhpStorm, a feature not implemented in the software, but in the licensing terms.