[panny]

>Jetbrains is the exception, not the norm. Developer tools are loss leaders for large corporation to acquire developer goodwill and mindshare. Previously we sold developer tools/PaaS. Programmers do not like to pay for their tooling.

It's really funny to me that this is the top comment, because one of the reasons I use Eclipse instead of Jetbrains is due to the tool mentioned directly in the article, Mylyn. Any time I mention it, programmers always respond with, "Huh? What's that?" I choose Eclipse over Jetbrains, not because Jetbrains costs money, but because Jetbrains is not as feature rich. Eclipse is more capable than Intellij Idea at any price.

[techdragon]

More capable perhaps, but I’ll take software I can use over Eclipse any day. I repeatedly get pushed towards eclipse for a number of different things all the time and every year I give it a shot because I know things can change over time... and every year I walk away deeply frustrated and spend another year throwing anything that requires working with eclipse based tools, strait into my mental trash bin.