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by neosavvy 2703 days ago
If you are a student it's free.

Also good tools are worth paying for, I have been a subscription user of their tools now for years.

I think it's like $199 for a subscription to the whole suite. If you are a dev (or work for someone who expects you to do dev work for pay) it's worthy spending a few of your coins on good tools.

I stare at these tools all darn day, and they rarely if ever crash. I don't regret moving away from Eclipse almost a decade ago, which used to devour all my system resources and crash and fail constantly.
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rplnt 2703 days ago
That's 2/3 of a minimal monthly salary in Bulgaria. While developers sure make much more than that (unless they are in public sector), it's still nowhere near the $100k/year starting salary you get in the Valley. And that's still EU, you can go further East...

When saying something is not expensive (few of your coins), consider that it might be just your situation where it's not expensive.

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h1d 2702 days ago
You don't need $100k / year to spend $10 a month but I see the disparity of income around the globe can mean $10 is heavier than others.
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crumpets 2703 days ago
There are tons of tools in the open source world that are incredible and free. The assumption that you have to spend money on tools does not apply to software at all unless you are working in a proprietary ecosystem.

What is the paid version of grep/ripgrep that works better?

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pjmlp 2703 days ago
Do you expect to be paid for your work or also offer it for free and live from donations?
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thejosh 2703 days ago
>good tools are worth paying for

Not ALL tools need to be paid for.

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pjmlp 2703 days ago
Not all WORK needs to be paid for.
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eitland 2703 days ago
That is correct. Trivial example:

If I say I'll do some work for free the we can assume you don't need to pay for it.

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pjmlp 2703 days ago
Just like I should not complain if you decide not to keep doing it, when the need to pay for bills arises or I happened to abuse from your goodwill.
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endorphone 2703 days ago
I agree wholeheartedly, and subscribe to the whole suite of JetBrains tools. Absolutely fantastic value.
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h1d 2702 days ago
Their all product pricing is pretty good value. If you need more than 2 of their tools (while using IntelliJ which covers half of their offerings), then you should switch to all products and quickly get to third year discount.

I use IntelliJ, AppCode and that already means I should be using all products pack which I'm subscribed to.

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