[musicale]

> Programmers do not like to pay for their tooling

Turbo Pascal and Think C enjoyed some success in the 1980s and 1990s.

Then again it looks like those environments were simpler, more responsive, and more enjoyable to use compared to the clunky modern IDEs of the 2020s.

(And of course there were fewer free alternatives, and modern apps have to deal with horribly complex APIs, networking, concurrency, distributed systems, etc..)