[donmcronald]

> Last week i cancelled my Jetbrains sub after a decade of daily driving it.

I’ve been paying for a personal license for about 20 years and I’ve been thinking of dropping it. I don’t use it much, but I wanted access to something that I could use offline. I’m not sure that’s possible at this point, so the main appeal is kind of gone for me.

I frequently choose “lesser” tools if it means I’m guaranteed they’ll run offline. I’ve always wanted to have a dev container with all the tools needed to develop 100% offline if needed. Licensing makes that almost impossible and Jetbrains doesn’t look like they have any solutions that work great for 100% offline development anymore.

I might check out Zed this week. I’ve never heard of it. If anyone has some great resources for 100% offline development, I’d love to see them. My subscriptions are getting out of hand and this may be the year for me to trim the fat.

[nextaccountic]

Zed is amazing. It has AI features but it was still amazing before them

The pivot to AI is concerning but the technology is solid and most importantly, it is open source.

I'm kind of mad that JetBrains wouldn't open source Fleet even after EOL, and going as far as taking down the download (something annoying for people that care about software preservation - I hope archive.org has a copy). I can't support a company like this

[microtonal]

The nice thing is that they have a single option Disable all AI that does just that. It's refreshing.

(I do use Zed with agents, because it's really good/helpful.)

[torben-friis]

What kind of offline degradation are you thinking of?

Other than the case you mention (paid service asking for license check) I can’t think of any limitation. Vs code, neovim, zed, eMacs, they should all work. Obviously if you need to clone a repo or download dependencies you need a connection but other than that…

[domano]

Yeah that should work, you can remove all the AI stuff with a single setting and the rest should be fine.