I understand trying to save money, but the individual licenses are really fairly priced. For a single IDE (like Webstorm) it's $69/year for the first year, then $41/year from year 3 and on. That's <$4/mo. And you can write it all off as a business expense.
For the price of a coffee (and maybe a bagel) once a month, you get access to something that can save you hours a week. And if you ever stop subscribing, you can keep using the last licensed version you have, just without further upgrades. I don't think there is a better value anywhere in the software world. It costs even less (and gives way more) than MS Office.
If you need more than one IDE, it's more expensive, but still not bad at all. They also give free licenses to FOSS maintainers, along with significant discounts for startups, education, nonprofits, etc.
You make a good point and I agree 100%; itinerant very reasonably priced. I realize that my comment only highlighted the price being the only factor in my decision to move to other editor. It’s really more like 10% of the reason. My main reason is not having my development experience tied to a single non-open source product. Jetsbrains + ideavim lead to a very highly customizable experience (things like quick lists, triggering ide menu options from ideavim bindings, etc) however it’s still not as configurable as the open source alternatives. Plus I get the benefit of not leaving the shell. This, the price and several other reasons led me to commit to it (another big reason is that it’s just plain fun; the things you can build\come up with to speed your development experience is honestly more of a hobby at this point. So it’s not even about the speed to get things done but something that’s just very enjoyable)
For the price of a coffee (and maybe a bagel) once a month, you get access to something that can save you hours a week. And if you ever stop subscribing, you can keep using the last licensed version you have, just without further upgrades. I don't think there is a better value anywhere in the software world. It costs even less (and gives way more) than MS Office.
If you need more than one IDE, it's more expensive, but still not bad at all. They also give free licenses to FOSS maintainers, along with significant discounts for startups, education, nonprofits, etc.