[gatherhunterer]

They seem to have nice products but when people compare JetBrains tooling to Vim, Emacs and VSCode everyone seems to leave out the fact that those tools are 100% free. I think it’s important for coding to be open to as many people as possible and the tools are the point of entry.

[rco8786]

JetBrains does have a free tier, fwiw. It’s quite powerful too (I say this as an avid vim user)

[on_and_off]

FWIW Android Studio is 100% free.

I hope that Google showers JetBrains in money for this.

I have many gripes with the current state of Android Studio but it is still a fantastic product.

[marsrover]

I didn’t think Jetbrains had a free tier other than for IntelliJ. Everything else has a trial but no community edition (as far as I’m aware).

[rsynnott]

IntelliJ is a big part of it, tho. JVM languages, plus all supported languages that they don’t have a variant for (it has a decent first party Rust plugin, for instance).

[collyw]

Pycharm has a community edition and for most tasks it is fine.

[guggle]

There's pycharm community edition.

[atorodius]

There is one for PyCharm. Maybe for others too? I didn‘t find a table though

[rco8786]

Ok? They have a powerful free tier and sell niche upgrades. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

[xbryanx]

These tools are not 100% free (as in beer) when you factor in your time. I spent years ($$) customizing my Vim setup and saved tons of time ($$) when I finally switched to IntelliJ with IdeaVim.

[iLemming]

Well, I have an opposite experience. I have used IntelliJ for about 7 years. I still sometimes receive notifications for tickets that I have either submitted or upvoted. Some of them are started in 2014.

I switched to Emacs and that gave me enormous freedom to change things to my liking instead of just learning how to live with the way how IntelliJ people envisioned it. So one can say: switching to Emacs saved me years of waiting for the features I wanted in IntelliJ.

Sometimes brewing your own beer gives you much better satisfaction that you can't buy with any kind of money. And you can say it's 100% free beer, but it is not, when you factor your time.

[gatherhunterer]

They are free as in free beer. Your “time and money are direct equivalents” argument is nonsense even to the wealthiest people and sheer lunacy to the people who most need free coding tools.