Big problem for me is that they are using proceeds from well-selling products like ReSharper to fund their strategic but under-performing products like Rider, all while neglecting the former. Over last few years there were no big features added in ReSharper whatsoever and it became slower.
Where do you get information about JetBrains's sales and engineering expenses to draw this conclusion?
One reason Rider will pull ahead of Resharper is because Rider builds on the same base IDE as most of their products, so it benefits to a large extent from investment in any of those IDEs. I'm assuming that Resharper can only benefit from direct investment.
What the hell is up with prices? Everything I pay in dollars became 20% more expensive. My cereal became 20% more expensive. Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive. This is the first time in my life (34 yo) that price changes have been so large that they’re apparent to me. And even with a dev salary the combined amount is high enough that it has an impact on my behavior.
> My cereal became 20% more expensive. > Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive. I understand the frustration but surely you can see the causality link here? Jetbrains employees have to eat too. The individual solution is sadly for you to ask for a 20% raise and screw people down the line. Global solution would be enforced price controls, we know it works because France did it after the war, the government imposed lowe…
Price controls don’t work; the US figured this out during WW2 when it just led to shortages, had spotty enforcement, and needed a gigantic bureaucracy to actually determine prices.
It’s easy to see why price controls fail to work: if there’s 10 guys willing to pay 10 bucks for 10 apples, setting the maximum price of an apple to $1 isn’t gonna change the fact that more people want apples than there are apples. This either means queues so those most willing to queue gets things (the soviet model), black markets where things are bought at the true value (nonsensical official exchange rates see this), or a mixture of both (WW2 US).
We currently have inflation because of a few things, mainly that there’s too much money chasing too few goods. So the equilibrium is that raised prices lead to people buying fewer things because they can’t afford as many, and a new supply/demand equilibrium is established.
But of course this can’t happen if wages are also going up, as people just try to but the same always amount of things with their newly increased salary, and we’re back to the problem of not enough good again.
The only way this gets solved is a mixture of increased supply of good, decreased demand through either decreasing real salaries, increasing real prices, and quantitative tightening.
People don’t like hearing this, because hearing that you’ll meet to have less purchasing power in order for supply to meet demand means that things that you could afford previously can no longer be bought. Saying that wages shouldn’t go up is a non-starter, and rightfully so, which is how inflation-wage spirals get started.
Basically, the only way out that’s politically feasible (I mean politics in the general sense of people interacting with each other, not government) is to trigger a recession and then everybody is forced to buy fewer things and nobody has to say “we’re not raising your salary because that just exacerbated the problem”.
> My cereal became 20% more expensive. > Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive. I understand the frustration but surely you can see the causality link here? Jetbrains employees have to eat too. The individual solution is sadly for you to ask for a 20% raise and screw people down the line. Global solution would be enforced price controls, we know it works because France did it after the war, the government imposed lowe…
> I understand the frustration but surely you can see the causality link here? Jetbrains employees have to eat too. Haha, no, I didn’t, but now that you point it out it seems obvious ;) That said, I somehow doubt Jetbrains employees will see these raised prices reflected in their salaries.
Surely they've already been getting raises of some sort for the past 7 years! This is just the product catching up.
The heavier IDEs are in real trouble given the impressive state of VS Code lately. I haven't found the need to reach for a bigger IDE than Code in a while and I've been perfectly productive in JS, C, Rust and Python projects lately. Do yourself a favour and try out Code for your next project.
There's no comparison between using VSCode and IntelliJ for Java development
Nicely communicated. Everything that JetBrains does around their pricing and subscription model always feels really fair and classy to me. (perpetual fallback licensing, continuity discounts). In this case, being completely upfront in the post title that this is a price increase, no "Updated pricing" or "Revised pricing" etc. Reasonable notice period with an option to renew for multiple years at the current pricing b…
> During this time, we have introduced new products that have been included at no extra cost to everyone using the latter.
It's like a landlord doing unrequested renovation and then sending a bill.
What the hell is up with prices? Everything I pay in dollars became 20% more expensive. My cereal became 20% more expensive. Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive. This is the first time in my life (34 yo) that price changes have been so large that they’re apparent to me. And even with a dev salary the combined amount is high enough that it has an impact on my behavior.
> My cereal became 20% more expensive. > Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive. I understand the frustration but surely you can see the causality link here? Jetbrains employees have to eat too. The individual solution is sadly for you to ask for a 20% raise and screw people down the line. Global solution would be enforced price controls, we know it works because France did it after the war, the government imposed lowe…
If price controls worked I would be living in a paradise. Yet here I am, +80% inflation expected for this year alone (Argentina)
What the hell is up with prices? Everything I pay in dollars became 20% more expensive. My cereal became 20% more expensive. Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive. This is the first time in my life (34 yo) that price changes have been so large that they’re apparent to me. And even with a dev salary the combined amount is high enough that it has an impact on my behavior.
Well when 80% of all US Dollars were "printed" / created in the last 2-3 years massive inflation will follow What we are seeing is the predictable result of the classic monetary models, and a rejection of Modern Monetary Theory which linked limits of government spending to the availability of real resources, like workers. Which is why you see people like The Treasury Sec saying the Economy is good because of employme…
MMT also predicted this. It says you're supposed to stop spending when resource constraints are reached otherwise you will see inflation. It's actually a much better description of how money actually flows
The problem was that everyone remembered the GFC and went way too far with spending in an already supply constrained environment.
The heavier IDEs are in real trouble given the impressive state of VS Code lately. I haven't found the need to reach for a bigger IDE than Code in a while and I've been perfectly productive in JS, C, Rust and Python projects lately. Do yourself a favour and try out Code for your next project.
There's no comparison between using VSCode and IntelliJ for Java development
There's Eclipse too. It was almost always the better IDE for pure Java development.
IntelliJ was always heavier and buggier whenever I tried using it.
This comes as no surprise and was in fact expected by Jetbrains. Each time they increase prices, VSCode becomes more attractive to developers. On top of that, Microsoft is doing a very clever pricing scam as I said before [0]; by making their base tools free and charging for exquisite features in VSCode like Copilot.
On other editors, either you use a barebones editor and pay for Copilot or you pay for both copilot and the editor subscriptions. Microsoft wins both ways and as evidently shown here, JetBrains conceded to make a subscription price rise.
The heavier IDEs are in real trouble given the impressive state of VS Code lately. I haven't found the need to reach for a bigger IDE than Code in a while and I've been perfectly productive in JS, C, Rust and Python projects lately. Do yourself a favour and try out Code for your next project.
I went the opposite way, from Code to Jetbrains and I would find it very hard to go back. The refactoring commands in Jetbrains are outstanding.