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by CuriouslyC 2328 days ago
VSCode is winning Javascript developer mindshare, but for most other languages Intellij is still dominant. For example, PyCharm is free and far better than VSCode for Python development. Additionally, Jetbrains products are free to use for people in education, which has pulled a lot of users.
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pjmlp 2328 days ago
JetBrains won't be able to stay doing free beer forever though, hence why one then only gets proper support for Kotlin/Native on CLion.
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bitL 2328 days ago
JetBrains lost it when they forced developers into subscriptions and later slightly backtracked (i.e. you can use 1 year old version after subscription expires), but still offered a worse deal than they had before. That came with a new CEO and CFO who insisted on "subscriptions are the future" model.

VSCode just filled the void they left wide open. But I suspect Sublime and Atom are the main victims of VSCode.

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