I’ve been paying for JetBrains for the past 10 years, and I want to keep supporting them. For a long time, I used Vim (about 5 years straight). Then one day, JetBrains introduced IdeaVim (Vim emulation). After that, I tried Neovim, but LazyVim didn’t really click with me. Maybe I’m just getting older and don’t feel like spending so much time fine-tuning my setup anymore.
RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
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Re: RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
#22I don't understand. Of all offerings from Jetbrains, only Pycharm is free for commercial use. Others have restrictions like RubyMine.
I would be interested to know the story there. It seems like a strange choice to be the only one free for commercial use.
Re: RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
#23Just another indication that ruby is dead?
More like since ruby-lsp has taken off, fewer Ruby users care about RubyMine.
Re: RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
#24Re: RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
#25I don't understand. Of all offerings from Jetbrains, only Pycharm is free for commercial use. Others have restrictions like RubyMine.
Perhaps it has a dependency with a license that forbids those kind of restrictions?
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#26> It’s important to note that, if you’re using a non-commercial license, you cannot opt out of the collection of anonymous usage statistics.
Important indeed. This is not "free as in freedom"
Re: RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
#27I don't understand. Of all offerings from Jetbrains, only Pycharm is free for commercial use. Others have restrictions like RubyMine.
That's not true: IntelliJ was the first one to come out licensed as Apache 2, and PyCharm (and the python plugin) followed suit. Both of them do have paid versions with more features, but IntelliJ and PyCharm open source builds are still very strong products and unquestionably not "phoning it in" releases
Re: RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
#28It's been a long time since I last used RubyMine, but I always felt that it was the weakest of the JetBrains tools. And not because JetBrains didn't try hard enough, but because Ruby just doesn't offer a lot of opportunities for an IDE to take advantage of. I ended up cancelling my subscription over some trivial thing (I think it was the fact that I couldn't quite get the IDE to preserve the indentation of a file. It…
Yeah, Ruby wasn’t unpleasant to write in the wonderfully simple TextMate back in the day… a full fat IDE feels like extreme overkill. I might even say that’s a point of attraction for the language. Overwrought IDEs and heavy editors are more optional relative to some languages.
I have worked at several ruby shops and everyone has used heavy IDEs like RubyMine and VSCode, jump to's and language server are far too important.
Re: RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
#29Just another indication that ruby is dead?
Probably more an indication that interest in RubyMine is dying, so they want to increase demand. I would look at development of VS Code extensions for any language to use as indications of demand. (in this case, the best one being ruby-lsp, which is still very active and alive)