[DevX101]

This is an odd hill to die on. I'd bet 90%+ of engineers have a single computer they code from at home (even if you have multiple computers) and another at work. It's perfectly fair to pay for a separate license for each of those use cases. I'd prefer this to some $10/month SAAS model.

[heyoni]

No it’s not. I have a desktop and 2 laptops. My desktop has 3 OSes, Mac windows and Linux. Why the hell would I buy this, and then have to think really hard about which one I’ll use with it?

I probably feel too strongly about this. Last week I setup a nytimes cooking subscription and then immediately canceled it when I realize I had to leave it on auto pay or else it wouldn’t work.

[dahdum]

Just having a desktop and a laptop is enough to kill this product for me, I’m not paying twice when it’s only me using it. It shows disrespect for the user, or at least ignorance.

No other paid software I use does that. Sketchup, Sublime, Jetbrains, and Office for instance.

[fphhotchips]

Office is a mixed bag for this. I have a Visio Pro licence that only allows a single installation. Driving me insane.

[ineedtosleep]

Disagreed. I have a MBP, a Linux desktop and a Thinkpad running both Linux and Windows. My one subscription to a Jetbrains product covers all of them provided I don't run the program at the same time across multiple machines.

Believing that most engineers only have one computer IMO seems out of touch with reality.

[brandonmenc]

> My one subscription to a Jetbrains product covers all of them

And also includes their database tool, DataGrip.

[zo1]

> And also includes their database tool, DataGrip.

Which is awesome by itself. I use it regularly and only have minor issues with some of it's behavior, but the experience is worlds-ahead than what I've encountered previously at that price point.

[Aeolun]

DataGrip is quickly becoming unusable to me due to it’s inability to show me a tables/field encoding.

I really have no clue how anyone thought that was an unnecessary feature.

[OOPMan]

Have you considered filing a ticket on their issue tracker? I find Jetbrains are pretty responsive...

[therealdrag0]

Can you elaborate on what that is? I haven’t ran I to that before.

[Aeolun]

Like the other response on this says. Tables in MySQL (and individual columns, and databases) have an encoding associated with them, this determines what characters you can store in them.

Right now I cannot modify that in Datagrip, but worse, I cannot even see it without a raw query.

[elbear]

I'm assuming they're taking about character encoding, as in utf-8.

[monocularvision]

The point was that the pricing of this product is _not a subscription_ so perhaps the pricing makes sense. Your response is to describe a subscription product. I am not sure I understand what you were trying to say.

[zarkov99]

I have a laptop, a home computer, a work computer and I have all my tools on all of them. I bet that is more the norm than not. The license should be associated with the person not the device.