[dtnewman]

And it’s crazy how cheap our tools are! My plumber has a $10,000 camera. Meanwhile, for less than $2000, I have the same laptop that I would own if I were a billionaire (shameless plug for Framework). And that’s my most expensive piece of productivity equipment, by far (especially when annualized… sure I can spend $5k on a desk but I won’t need a new one every few years and it would very clearly be a luxury, not a productivity boost over a $1000 desk).

I am personally happy to pay for productivity enhancing software. If you make software that helps me and charge a reasonable price (and Jetbrains prices are quite reasonable), I want you to get rich and make an immediate profit so that you are incentivized to keep making and maintaining great software and don’t feel compelled to sell.